Staff Product Design Engineer

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Staff Product Design Engineer

We are building a small team of versatile and enthusiastic leaders to create new products for the PlayStation community. Our team recently delivered the new PlayStation Link, PULSE Explore and PULSE Elite products, and are hard at work on what comes next. We need an experienced and innovative mechanical product design engineer to help develop new products and features. 

Come and play with us!

Responsibilities:

In this role, you own the overall mechanical design for high profile product development efforts. This senior leader will be adept at hands-on mechanical design, as well as growing the capabilities of fellow team members and building strong relationships with internal and external partners.

• Lead overall system mechanical design, including personally implementing and delivering detailed CAD of the primary architectural elements
• Lead interactions with industrial design team
• Manage the detailed product design and validation with engineering and manufacturing partners
• Anticipate and respond to challenges in manufacturing

Skills:

• A technically strong and independent mechanical engineer with strong product design approach
• Engaged at both the product design level (what should it do?) and the detailed engineering level (how should it be built?)
• Experienced with small consumer products and new product development from initial concept through mass production
• Effective bridging from a small core team working with and within large organizations
• Comfortable spanning from high level program strategy and management to detailed engineering implementation
• Hands on capability in creative prototyping approaches to rapidly build low and high-fidelity prototypes for design and functional assessment

Qualifications:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• Bachelor’s degree in a related engineering field, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of experience leading mechanical design for small consumer products
• Demonstrated experience in designing detailed parts for a wide variety of manufacturing methods, such as injection molding, sheet metal stamping, and CNC fabrication
• Demonstrated experience in applying knowledge of various materials and their properties for specific product features & requirements
• Demonstrated experience in DFM, DFA, tolerance analysis techniques, and creating 2D drawings
• Demonstrated experience in reliability testing & analysis
• Exceptional CAD proficiency (SolidWorks preferred)
• Experience in the video game industry is not required, but interest and passion for gaming experience, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, and technology is vital

Working Conditions:

• Small team environment; feels like a start-up within a large organization!
• Travel (primarily international) required. Estimated 15%

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Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.