Product Inventor​/Engineer @ Ecom

Overview

Do you see crappy products everywhere and think, "I could make that so much better"? Does your brain refuse to stop solving problems, even when you're supposed to be relaxing? Do you thrive in a high-stress environment filled with political infighting, bureaucracy, and corporate nonsense?

If so, then we are the place for you, except you might hate how nice of a company we have - filled with happy, generally competent people that don’t put up with jerks. Frankly, it makes me sick how nice everyone is.

We are remote full time, have very flexible hours, people are judged by their output, not by how much they suck up to the boss, and turnover is super low because the company believes that happy employees = happy customers = happy bank account. Simply disgusting, if you ask me.

--Is this a real job ad?-- Yup! Amazingly enough, we actually paid money to post this on a bunch of different job sites. And it’s not even a pyramid scheme! Plus, the owner just started paying our 70ish employees with money instead of Pizza Hut coupons - we’re big time, people.

Our careers page is actually worth checking out to learn more about how insane we are (sidenote: it won a web design award in 1993 - we’re a pretty big deal):

And check out our reviews on Google, Glassdoor, Indeed to see that it’s not just the founder’s mother who says we’re cool.

--What do you guys do?-- We do a lot of different things these days including selling awesome consumer products (these are just a small sampling):

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• Beverage Barricades (  )
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Running this Amazon Pay-Per-Click agency:  (we’re really, really good at PPC). We will soon be launching a SaaS product for inventory management. We are doing our best to grow rapidly every year, and it’s our intention to continue that for as long as possible, which means we need good people to help us keep up with the growth.

• Take product concepts and figure out how to make them work elegantly
• Design products in CAD (we use Solid Works, but we re flexible on software)
• Prototype heavily in-house (3D printing, testing, breaking, improving, repeat)
• Iterate relentlessly until the product hits our "remarkable" quality threshold
• Collaborate with our supply chain team on Design for Manufacturing and sourcing decisions
• Deliver production-ready CAD files and specifications for manufacturing
• Solve hard problems that don t have obvious solutions (this is like 80% of the job)

To give you an idea of what we make:
Beverage Barricades (the magnetic drink guard), Croco Dicer, and various kitchen gadgets that make people s lives meaningfully better. We re not making generic private label crap - we re inventing things that are genuinely novel and patentable.

Fair warning: this is slow, deliberate work. A single product might take 6-36 months from concept to launch. We are quality-obsessed and refuse to ship mediocre products. If you need the dopamine hit of shipping something every week, you will be miserable here. Like everyone else in the company, you will also need to innovate regularly - which means figuring out ways to improve quality and production speed.

It is challenging, but fun work that’s going to require a lot of time and task management, problem-solving, and a reasonable amount of people skills.

• Do I need a college degree? You just need to be awesome.
• Are there any geographic restrictions? As long as you are in a country that doesn’t have active sanctions from the US government, we are interested.
• Do I need an engineering degree? Nope. Our current product engineer is largely self-taught and didn t go to engineering school. We don t care about credentials - we care about whether you can actually invent great products. If you can demonstrate strong CAD skills and a track record of making things, that matters way more than a diploma.
• What CAD software do you use? We currently use Solid Works, but we re not religious about it. Proficiency in Fusion 360, AutoCAD, or similar is fine. You ll need to come in with strong 3D modeling skills; we re not training from zero.
• How many products will…