Senior Design Engineer

The Senior Design Engineer is a hands-on individual contributor responsible for the mechanical and structural engineering of both consumer-facing food and beverage equipment and structural food packaging systems. The role carries equal responsibility across both scopes and plays an active part in early-stage product innovation, working alongside Industrial Design from concept through production.

Engineering in this role is not limited to downstream execution. The Senior Design Engineer works side-by-side with Industrial Design during concept development, helping generate ideas, explore unconventional architectures, and unlock new forms, functions, and manufacturing strategies—while grounding creative ambition in technical feasibility and production reality.

An expectation of this role is close, day-to-day collaboration with internal Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain teams, external partner design agencies, and external suppliers and manufacturing partners to shorten design-for-manufacturing cycles, surface risks early, and accelerate the transition from concept to production.

This role is intentionally shaped for engineers who enjoy working in close creative partnership with designers and who see engineering as a generative part of the design process, not just a path to execution.

Food & Beverage Equipment

• Contribute to the mechanical design of consumer-facing food and beverage equipment, including dispensing, handling, enclosures, and supporting subsystems.
• Partner with Industrial Design during concept development to explore novel mechanical architectures, layouts, and manufacturing approaches.
• Support form, interaction, and user-experience goals through thoughtful mechanical layout and system design.
• Support fluid handling, thermal, and process-related systems through design contribution and integration.
• Specify and integrate mechanical and electromechanical components in coordination with external engineering and manufacturing partners.
• Support prototyping, system integration, benchmarking, and iterative refinement throughout development.

Structural Food Packaging

• Design and develop structural packaging systems with equal emphasis to equipment, including:
• Bottles, containers, and closures
• Cups, lids, and seals
• Secondary packaging (paperboard, corrugated, cartons, trays, shippers)
• Collaborate with Industrial Design from early concept stages to translate form, brand, and user experience intent into structurally sound and manufacturable packaging.
• Balance brand expression, user experience, and structural performance in primary and secondary packaging systems.
• Partner closely with Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain, and packaging vendorsto evaluate materials, constructions, tooling approaches, and production readiness.
• Explore alternative materials, constructions, and manufacturing methods to enable new packaging experiences and efficiencies.
• Support packaging testing activities such as drop, compression, leak, and handling evaluations.
• Work directly with packaging suppliers, molders, and converters to refine designs for tooling, cost, quality, and scalability.
• Actively participate in early-stage concept work and ideation alongside Industrial Design.
• Identify engineering- and manufacturing-led opportunities that enable new product experiences, forms, or system-level efficiencies.
• Use early supplier and manufacturing input to inform exploratory concepts and avoid downstream redesign.
• Support exploratory prototyping and experimentation to test unconventional ideas quickly and pragmatically.

Manufacturing, DFM & Production Readiness

• Collaborate closely with internal Manufacturing Engineering to align designs with process capabilities, tooling strategies, and assembly methods.
• Engage Supply Chain partners earlyto evaluate sourcing options, lead times, cost drivers, and scalability.
• Apply Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFM/DFA) principles to reduce iteration cycles and increase development speed.
• Surface manufacturing risks early and help drive resolution through design refinement and supplier engagement.
• Support validation, testing, and documentation required for production release.