Be part of a fun 4-day workweek team in new product development engineering. Responsibilities include working with the customers and being the bridge between a customer’s idea and your engineering team that will design and fully build the prototype. From high-technology electronics, and manufacturing equipment to autonomous vehicles the projects are divers and exciting. An engineering degree or strong technical industry new product development background is encouraged to apply.

Be part of a fun 4-day workweek team in new product development engineering. Responsibilities include working with the customers and being the bridge between a customer’s idea and your engineering team that will design and fully build the prototype. From high-technology electronics, and manufacturing equipment to autonomous vehicles the projects are diverse and exciting. An engineering degree or strong technical industry new product development background is encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

• Control the entire project life cycle. Handle all the resources and coordination from a technical standpoint.
• Management of the hardware product development and integration of the project
• Set and achieve objectives, ensuring both top quality and control of the project.
• Customers’ relationship focus, provide updates, overflow discussions, and successes
• Proposal preparation and contract negotiation, NDA, ROMS (rough order of magnitude)
• Management of technical risk, schedule, cost management, and product performance balance

• Identify prototype manufacturing vendors, and assist in vendor management

• Participate in meetings, events, and customer test sites
• Track progress and milestones
• Lead team meetings and team building events, and develop best practices.
• Work closely with the Business Development team and potential clients
• Vendor management; Identify prototype manufacturing vendors.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of engineering experience with 3 years of project or product management experience in engineering organizations
• 4 years as PM in new product development/prototype development required.  no software development PM
• Ability to plan, manage, and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering efforts
• Embedded hardware/controls development of project is a plus
• Experience in a startup/small business environment
• Manage teams in a fast-paced/time-critical development environment
• Business Development/Sales and Marketing
• US Citizenship or Permanent Resident
• Able to travel 25%, if needed per project.
• Experience and understanding of hardware product development, and integration of major engineering components into a cohesive product. i.e Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, software development, Industrial design

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.