Mechanical Engineer; Tripod

About Peak Design

The purpose of Peak Design is to create happy, meaningful lives for the people that work here. We believe this purpose can only be achieved when self-actualizing, highly stoked people enthusiastically step into (or log onto) the Peak Design office every day. Our purpose and our mission go hand-in-hand and we encourage and celebrate authenticity and the unique perspective each of our employees brings.

We’re a close-knit team that thrives on mutual respect and the belief that every voice matters—especially when it’s got something interesting to say.

We make radical, meticulously-engineered gear for detail-obsessed people. Our backpacks, travel bags, camera gear, and phone accessories are used dang-near everywhere. If you’ve visited Machu Picchu, Tokyo, or an REI store in the last 10 years, you’ve been within ogling distance of a Peak Design product.

Alongside our award-winning gear is a brand that truly reflects who we are as people—passionate about design, deeply caring about our environmental and social impact, unafraid to speak up, radically transparent, and generally down to clown. Whether we’re explaining a product, running a sale, launching a nonprofit, sponsoring a film, or razzing the biggest company on Earth, we do it with our trademark honesty, warmth, and wit.

Through our products and our brand, we aim to create delight, and leave this world better than how we found it.

• In this role as Senior Mechanical Design Engineer on the Tripod team you will lead new product development and existing product improvement for our industry-leading photography and videography tripods and hardware accessories. You’ll own development of complex mechanical products from first prototypes to mass-production and you’ll be able to point not only at a small part of the finished product, but at the whole thing, and say with pride, “I made that”.

In 2019 we released the world’s most successful compact tripod, the Peak Design Travel Tripod. We spent 4 years in development and our customers went absolutely bananas for it. In 2024 we released the next evolution of this design: a larger, more premium, and more fully-featured set of tripods called the Pro Tripod line. Yes, we were incredibly creative with these product names, thank you for noticing!

We are currently developing exciting new products in this category to serve the core Peak Design customer - the creative photo/video hobbyist or professional with a passion for exploring the outdoors.

In this role you will work with a small team of engineers and designers to develop, test, and manufacture the next generation of Peak Design tripods and photo/video hardware accessories to cement our market dominance in the photo/video hardware world. You’ll have ownership of products made up of complex mechanisms and assemblies that require a borderline-fanatical focus on developing the right blend of satisfying user experience, aesthetics, weight, performance and cost.

You’ll employ your experience in mechanical design and hands‑on prototyping to take product ideas all the way through to wildly successful product launches. Experience and passion for mechanism design is a must - these are complex machines with a multitude of moving, sliding, and rotating parts.

• This role encompasses a broad set of responsibilities spanning the product ideation, prototyping, development, production and sustaining phases. Many companies split responsibility for these product lifecycle phases between different individuals or teams, with many “handoffs” along the way. We find that empowering a lead designer to shepherd the product from cradle to completion yields higher-quality and more innovative products, a stronger sense of ownership, and it’s simply more fun that way.
• Early in each product development cycle you’ll spend time researching, learning from customers and industry experts, and using photo/video products yourself in order to build an informed opinion of how Peak Design can improve upon the status quo. You’ll develop and test product hypotheses, ensure we are targeting the right set of customer needs, and develop design requirements.
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