Sr. Mechancial Design Engineer
The Team and Role: The Logitech G team seek an individual passionate about gaming, who thrives in a collaborative environment, eager to take on pivotal roles in innovation and product development for the next generation of gaming controller products. A creative thinker with a passion for innovation to push the boundaries, along with the expertise to transform from idea to concept to product. The ideal candidate has an active interest in the console & PC controller gaming category.
Our Gaming Engineering team spreads worldwide, both in Asia and Europe, and focuses on the design of gaming peripherals including keyboards, mice, driving wheels, flight controllers and more. Our motivation is to help all gamers have the best in-game experience by focusing on user needs: big and small, young and less young, for all genders, because playing is such an important part of life.
As a Senior Mechanical Design Engineer, you are responsible for;
• Driving new product development & innovation activities.
• Identifying and exploring new product concepts/features/user experiences for the controller gaming category
• Playing a leading role in a cross-functional team to design and develop these from product front end to successful mass production in the far east
As a key member of the Logitech gaming team, the candidate is responsible for combining engineering expertise, testing and a relentless pursuit of creating the best products and experiences that are sold around the world. The ability to do 3D molding and apply scientific approaches & analysis tools to create robust mechanical designs for volume mass production is required. Additional responsibilities include ensuring product features achieve cost, schedule, reliability, regulatory, and safety goals.
Your Contribution:
Be Yourself. Be Open. Stay Hungry and Humble. Collaborate. Challenge. Decide and just Do. Share our passion for Equality and the Environment. These are the behaviours and values you’ll need for success at Logitech. In this role you will:
As a key member of the Gaming ME team, you will be responsible for ideating, exploring & prototyping mechanical & electromechanical solution concepts that transform user experiences. Along with delivering mechanical product designs for gaming products, from the Product Front End through product development and into successful mass production. You will also contribute to innovation and technology programs to enable gaming product evolution.
• Development of user centric gaming products (PC & Console Controllers) and participate in the development of User Experience (UX) research to develop customer focussed products. • Develop product architectures and new technology concepts • Work with Industrial Designers, and product development teams to define and develop products from concept to Mass Production • Lead & support innovation activities in the gaming controller product category and continuous improvement/advancement of Engineering capabilities • Build mechanical/electro-mechanical proof of concepts to evaluate UX, function, manufacturability, and/or robustness • Ensure high quality robust design of complex mechanical systems and components using tools such as dFMEA, QFD and FEA simulation. • Analyse data generated from pilot builds and lab experiments • Perform tolerance analyses to verify performance of mechanisms and cosmetic specifications in the presence of high volume dimensional variation • Detailed 3D design and 2D documentation of all parts and assemblies • Interacting with vendors as well as internal Manufacturing, Supply Chain, NPI and Supplier Quality Engineering groups to develop manufacturing processes & tooling • Define reliability testing requirements and equipment • Strong knowledge and experience in rapid prototyping, functional lab testing of concepts and analysis of test data. • Optimise designs for performance, quality and cost.