Senior Product Engineer

Requisition
901
-Posted
14/09/2026

- Plymouth, Mi

- United States
- Job Category (1)
- Professional

- Permanent

By creating bearings and solutions for everything from industrial applications to vehicles, SKF plays an essential role in our everyday lives. In Q4 2026, SKF intends to spin off its Automotive business and list it as a separate company under the name of SKF Vertevo. A company created to support the future of the automotive market, and to co-drive the future of mobility faster.

This role will be a part of that new company. Would you like to join us, and move people further?

As a Product Engineer, you will join the R&D Driveline Engineering organization, within the Powertrain Engineering team. In this role you will contribute to developing the next generation of products and knowledge for traditional and electrified automotive powertrains. You will also support daily business needs with mechanical product expertise, building on SKF Automotive's current Ball bearing and Roller Bearing portfolio. This position allows you to work in a multidisciplinary and dynamic environment in close collaboration with teams across the full value chain, from suppliers to customers.

Finally, you will translate market trends and customer needs into new, efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions.

• You will define, develop, and maintain the product’s technical data, while continuously updating your technical knowledge to deliver value to SKF customers. You will ensure smooth handling of customer requests by defining application-specific offerings, providing product specifications, and proposing innovative solutions when needed.
• You will plan, drive, and execute design/3D CAD requests and engineering tasks, with priority given to customer inquiries and project needs
• You also will plan, drive, execute and report product development activities, as part of NMO projects and/or customer enquiries, for both mechanical and mechatronic products.
• Your activities include requirements review, specification definition, design activities, design reviews, DFMEA, simulations, prototypes definition and validation, to ensure robustness of the product, and perfect fit with application specific requirements
• You will capitalize the lesson learned of automotive EV/PWT application/products in order to improve the knowledge and update the design rules with a specific focus on electric powertrain.
• Your Mechanical expertise will enable you to contribute to customer enquiries by providing solid product and technical insights. You will support Sales and Application Engineers by translating customer sub-system application requirements into clear product requirements.
• You will drive design and validate activities for ICR and engineering changes
• You will work daily with teams across the full value chain (e.g. application engineering, competence center, manufacturing, purchasing, other product development teams and RTD, testing labs, GBI/GMC labs) to evaluate new materials, technologies, simulation tools, processes and to support supplier selection, all with the aim of optimizing our products.

• Engineering Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering or related technical field.
• 5+ years in in product engineering, project engineering, manufacturing engineering, or a similar environment.
• An experience or strong interest in Automotive and EV applications is a plus.
• Some years’ experience in product development, or as technical leader, or in a similar R&D environment. (NMO and ETO process),
• Good knowledge with, or strong understanding of, high-precision mechanical components and their applications
• You are fluent in English, both written and spoken.
• Tool experience preferred:
  • PTC Creo,…