Design Engineer V
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Engineering
Product Engineer, Mechanical Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer
Job Title: Product Design Engineer
Location: New York, NY
Job Type: Contract (8 months, possible extension)
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Pay Range: $110‑120 per hour with optional benefits including insurance (medical, dental, vision), PTO, 401(k) matching
SummaryAt Reality Labs we aim to bring together the brightest cross‑disciplinary minds in one place to deliver on our mission: build tools that help people feel connected, anytime, anywhere. As a Product Design Engineer, you will take a critical role in developing hardware systems for New Technology Initiatives. You will become part of a team exploring developing concepts through prototyping and into mass‑production consumer electronics.
You will work as part of a cross‑functional team requiring collaboration and curiosity in domains other than mechanical engineering. Our team supports mechanical engineering fundamentals, prototyping skills, CAD (NX) fluency, manufacturing process knowledge, and experience designing consumer electronics.
- Lead the mechanical design for a particular component, feature or system while having end‑to‑end product development understanding
- Contribute to mechanical solutions as part of a highly cross‑functional team
- Model, build, test, and refine prototypes and characterization test systems
- Work across the full product development cycle, from concept inception to shipping product
- Collaborate and manage work with Asia‑based Supply Chain
- Push state‑of‑the‑art technologies and approaches to solving complex mechanical problems while working with cross functional technical teams
- BS in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent
- 5+ years of industry experience in mechanical design
- 3D/2D CAD with Siemens NX
- Experience in Design for Manufacturability (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), statistical tolerance analysis techniques, functional dimensioning, GD&T
- Working knowledge in material properties, such as elastomers, plastics, metal, adhesive, and glass
- Testing and analysis experience (FEA, Simulation, Design of Experiments, etc.)
- Knowledge of high‑volume manufacturing techniques (stamping, machining, 3D printing, injection molding, etc.)
- 10 years of product design and development experience of handheld and/or wearable high‑volume consumer electronics, including complex subsystems and/or full systems ownership
- Experience with highly cosmetic products and working with Industrial Design
- Fluency in Mandarin and/or Cantonese
- Experience designing for human factors
- Experience designing and shipping products with Asia‑based supply chains
- Strong CAD software experience specifically with Siemens NX, 3D drawing creations
- Product Design engineering experience (FAANG companies) PD experience at Apple highly preferred. Knowledge of high‑volume manufacturing techniques (stamping, machining, 3D printing, injection molding, etc.) Testing and Analysis experience
- 5+ years of industry experience in mechanical design, Consumer electronics
- Looking for the combination of design engineer at a mass consumer electronics company
- Owning a project start to finish, early concept to mass production. Experience designing and shipping products with Asia‑based supply chains – Mandaring and Cantonese experience is a plus
- Elastomer professional molding, liquid injection
- Wearables Experience, Apple iWatch or Google Pixel
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