Product Development Engineer

We’re Hiring! Join GRAYL as our next Product Development Engineer. We build industry‑leading water treatment products that empower adventure for our community. Our new hire will help bring novel water treatment devices to life, create cutting‑edge designs and solve challenging engineering riddles. You’ll be required to draw, CAD, prototype new designs, then test, learn and improve. We’re looking for a CAD wizard who is passionate about solving technical problems and building, testing and delivering to market the highest quality products.

At GRAYL, we don’t just build products; we engineer essential gear for life’s most challenging expeditions. Our durable, best‑in‑market purifiers are crafted to withstand the harshest conditions, empowering self‑reliant adventure for those who dare to explore.

Beyond innovation, we’re driven by purpose: we proudly contribute 1% of annual sales revenue to non‑profit environmental organizations, and our team enjoys 2 paid volunteer days to support causes they believe in.

Hybrid position – 2‑3 days/week in our Seattle office. 4‑6 weeks per year of travel, including travel abroad, nights in tents, and dirt under fingernails.

• Use CAD, 3D prints, and sketching to efficiently explain ideas for prototyping and tooling
• Understand our consumer’s needs and pain points to drive research into the feasibility of technology, materials, and market potential
• Share findings in clear, concise and convincing ways to stakeholders
• Experience sourcing materials, working with 3rd party factories across a diverse supply chain
• Build minimum viable prototypes demonstrating the how and and why
• Put stuff together using 3d printing, saws, glue and trips to Lowe’s
• Test the prototypes—use both your own skills as well as external labs
• Create protocols and tests to ensure prototypes meet the high standards demanded by GRAYL’s customers
• Share the magic: show and tell findings with colleagues, share models, prototypes and test results with colleagues in a clear and energetic manner
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, content strategists, user researchers, and other designers
• Nurture GRAYL’s culture: work hard, play outdoors, love nature
• Work collaboratively with Product, Research and Engineering partners from concept through completion and future iterations
• Work with industrial design team to refine the design and character while maintaining engineering requirements
• Stay on top of industry trends and emerging technologies
• Travel regularly – 5-7 international and domestic trips year year

• Empathetic. You are relentlessly obsessed with the end user, always seeking to understand our customers’ needs and fiercely advocating for their experience.
• Mechanical aptitude. Be a technical problem solver. Know how stuff works and figure out how to build it. Able to create and test potential solution paths simultaneously.
• High-level of craft. You have excellent craft and attention to detail, understanding how small nuances interact to create a seamless, intuitive design.
• Collaborative. Listen to and empathize with different perspectives, bring good energy to hard moments and do what you say.
• Adaptable. Embrace iteration and work with pace, bringing vision and direction in the midst of ambiguity.
• Tinkerer. Tinkerer. You’re a natural maker, surrounded by tools, with an insatiable curiosity for how things work.
• Entrepreneurial mindset. You understand the larger picture and are eager for your projects to benefit the company and the customer.

• CAD proficiency. This is a core aspect of your job. You work efficiently and creatively CAD (must use OnShape, learned easily from Solidworks).
• Understand manufacturing techniques. Injection molding, over molding and blow molding,…