Senior Product Design Engineer

at  Swytch Bike

Swytch is changing the way we move. We fundamentally believe that transport shouldn’t cost the Earth - so we’ve made it our mission to make electric transport accessible to everybody.
Since launching in 2017 we have reached over 100,000 customers, across 50 countries who have collectively ridden over 2 million miles!
Founded by engineers and cycling enthusiasts Oliver Montague and Dmitro Khroma, Swytch is a close-knit team dedicated to creating low carbon transport solutions which are fun to use and good for the planet and our customers. Our office is based in an old biscuit factory in Hackney Wick, East London. We have a fully functional workshop where the innovation and new product proposals come to life.
https://www.swytchbike.com/
The role
Senior Product Design Engineer (SPDE) is responsible for the conceptualisation, design, build, verification, and validation of new products whilst collaborating with industrial designers, the technical team in China, and other business functions, to ensure a consumer-focused, viable and validated product is scalable for production at the agreed specification, and in a timely manner.
This role has a large focus on 2D/3D file ownership and would be an ideal fit for a technical-minded self-starting individual contributor. An ideal candidate would have an effective ability to interact within multiple areas of the business at all levels. This role is hybrid – 3 days in London office, 2 days from home (if desired).

Responsibilities

• Self-sufficient, confident and capable
• You will be the most experienced mechanical engineer in the team. Your previous experience of developing and shipping multiple electro-mechanical consumer products gives you the confidence to make critical design decisions quickly. You’re familiar with a wide range of industrial manufacturing processes. You will quickly become the resident expert in our mechanical eBike system.
• Full Mechanical Design ownership of our entire system
• Release-level SolidWorks CAE/CAD capability – you will do the final reviews before release.
• You will take ownership of our PDM database, ensuring new designs are digitally synchronized
• Full Product Development ownership from concept to mass-manufacture (NPD, NPI)
• Fully versed in knowing and utilizing design tools. You can lay out a pragmatic project timeline for yourself and know which tools to use along the way.
• Requirements, Specifications, cBOM, RFP, RFQ, FEA, Design Release/Freeze, Workshops, dFMEA, Prototype, Integration, Verification, Validation, Testing, Risk Management, etc.
• Clear, Concise Communicator
• You communicate effectively across the business, from peers to non-technical leaders and junior engineers. You cater your level of technical complexity for every context.
• You communicate effectively externally to our Far-East Manufacturing Partners, online, conveying complex technical detail succinctly without confusion or mistake.
• Confident with every medium of technical communication, especially visual through PowerPoint and Sketching.
• Hands-on prototyping
• Confident using a wide range of prototyping techniques to assemble electro-mechanical prototypes in-house for validation testing.

Educated to a minimum of BEng/BSc level or equivalent in Product Design/Mechanical Engineering discipline and relevant experience
Demonstrable experience to conceptualise, design, build, test, validate and ship a variety of consumer electronic products
Advanced experience and understanding of 3D CAD software (SolidWorks) and PDM/ PLM Systems. Ability to do parametric modelling and keep the feature tree clean. Ability to design and build complex mechanisms. Ability to create and release 2D drawings.
Demonstrable experience designing injection moulded components, and a familiarity with the
various relevant design and development stages therein
Knowledge and experience of New Product Development & Introduction (NPD & NPI)

Demonstrable experience of prototyping techniques (releasing parts for 3D printing, CNC, manual machining and hacking; assembling etc.)

• Competitive salary of between £55k to 60k (depending on experience)
• Free lunch (in the office)
• Uncapped annual leave
• A free Swytch kit
• Medicash Scheme
• Discount for latest gadgets via our tech scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Open company culture with direct access to C-level leaders
• Regular socials

Diversity is important to us: We are a mixed group of people from many different backgrounds, each with our unique experiences. We respect and admire our differences and believe everyone can make a contribution to Swytch. Our recruitment process is reviewed regularly to maintain its fair and unbiased approach, and our management team has undergone unconscious bias training. We believe our success is based on the innovation of our team, the differing opinions, and the ability to respect each other enough to brainstorm our way to new ideas

• Self-sufficient, confident and capable
• You will be the most experienced mechanical engineer in the team. Your previous experience of developing and shipping multiple electro-mechanical consumer products gives you the confidence to make critical design decisions quickly. You’re familiar with a wide range of industrial manufacturing processes. You will quickly become the resident expert in our mechanical eBike system.
• Full Mechanical Design ownership of our entire system
• Release-level SolidWorks CAE/CAD capability – you will do the final reviews before release.
• You will take ownership of our PDM database, ensuring new designs are digitally synchronized
• Full Product Development ownership from concept to mass-manufacture (NPD, NPI)
• Fully versed in knowing and utilizing design tools. You can lay out a pragmatic project timeline for yourself and know which tools to use along the way.
• Requirements, Specifications, cBOM, RFP, RFQ, FEA, Design Release/Freeze, Workshops, dFMEA, Prototype, Integration, Verification, Validation, Testing, Risk Management, etc.
• Clear, Concise Communicator
• You communicate effectively across the business, from peers to non-technical leaders and junior engineers. You cater your level of technical complexity for every context.
• You communicate effectively externally to our Far-East Manufacturing Partners, online, conveying complex technical detail succinctly without confusion or mistake.
• Confident with every medium of technical communication, especially visual through PowerPoint and Sketching.
• Hands-on prototyping
• Confident using a wide range of prototyping techniques to assemble electro-mechanical prototypes in-house for validation testing