Sr. Product Design Engineer

The NETGEAR Product Design team is a group of highly skilled cross-disciplinary designers working together across continents and cultures in a friendly, fast-paced, and inspiring environment. We design and deliver technology products to a wide range of customers under our brands: Orbi, Nighthawk, and NETGEAR.

As a member of the Product Design team, you will lead the design, testing, performance, documentation, and production of networking hardware for retail and small business markets. These are high-volume products manufactured in Asia, and the successful candidate will manage the design and tooling of plastic and metal enclosures from concept through production for home and small-to-medium office use.

This is a hybrid role, expected to be onsite 3 days a week in our Richmond, BC office.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, evaluate, test, document, and improve products and components.

• Work closely with the product design team, product marketing, internal industrial design and mechanical engineering teams, and ODM partners to create new products or customize existing ones.

• Take a leadership role to ensure project goals for performance, cost, and schedule are met.

• Collaborate closely with second- and third-tier suppliers.

• Manage outside consultants and fabrication vendors.

• Travel internationally as required.

Required Qualifications

• BSME or equivalent experience.

• Strong mechanical engineering fundamentals required.

• Minimum 5-6 years of experience in Product Design and/or mechanical engineering in computer hardware or a similar consumer-oriented field (can include relevant internship experience).

• In-depth knowledge of Creo/PTC software, including demonstrable skills in creating complex surfaces, parts, assemblies, and drawings.

• Understanding of die casting, plastics, adhesives, stamping, machining, and rapid prototyping.

• Understanding of tolerance analysis.

• Expertise in plastic injection molding design.

• Extensive design experience with high-volume, low-cost products.

• Experience with Agile database systems is a plus.

• Effective leadership, organization, and project management skills.

• Proven ability and willingness to take ownership of projects and get the job done with minimal supervision.

• Experience successfully leading projects through pilot, mass production, and beyond.

• Self-starter who works well on a team.

Company Statement/Values:  

At NETGEAR, we are on a mission to unleash the full potential of connectivity with intelligent solutions that delight and protect. We turn ideas into innovative networking products that connect people, power businesses, and advance the way we live.  

We're a performance-driven, talented and connected team that's committed to delivering world-class products for our customers. As a company, we value our employees as the most essential building blocks of our success. And as teammates, we commit to taking our work to the Next Gear by living our values: we Dare to Transform the future, Connect and Delight our customers, Communicate Courageously with each other and collaborate to Win It Together. You’ll find our values woven through our processes, present in our decisions, and celebrated throughout our culture. 

We strive to attract top talent and create a great workplace where people feel engaged, inspired, challenged, proud and respected. If you are creative, forward-thinking, passionate about technology and are looking for a rewarding career to make an impact, then you've got what it takes to succeed at NETGEAR. Join our network and help us shape the future of connectivity.