Product Design Engineer

The Team
We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we're building tools that make commerce and financial services easier and more accessible to sellers of all sizes. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven't stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We're empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let's shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We're here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business-and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.
The Role
Reporting to a Product Design Lead, you will have ownership of one or more projects and their bring up through all phases of the product design lifecycle. This entails project ownership from the conceptual phase to detailed design and subsequent prototype and production builds at the factory. You will evaluate field failures and implement engineering solutions throughout the sustaining engineering phase until the conclusion of the product's life cycle.
You Will

• Work closely with Industrial Design & Product teams to architect and refine new product concepts.
• Develop rapid prototypes using common prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, machining, etc.
• Design high volume & high cosmetic plastic and metal parts.
• Work closely with cross functional teams such as Electrical Engineering, Factory Test, Factory Quality, and our Operations teams to schedule, design, and validate new products.
• Forge strong partnerships with our CMs and vendors to ensure successful builds that meet product goals and schedule with a focus on what best serves our sellers at launch.
• Effectively communicate your designs in front of a group via CAD, presentations, or hands-on prototypes

Unique aspects to the Square Product Design team:

• Ownership of elements of product and engineering program management especially in early project phases.
• Responsible for tooling bring-up and manufacturing design engineering of all new tools and processes.
• Incorporating security elements in our designs for tamper detection and prevention.
• Working with our CM partners in both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) and JDM (Joint Design Manufacturing) models.
• Responsible for reliability testing including putting together a validation plan, leveraging our CM partner's DQE teams to perform the testing, and reviewing, presenting and approving the data.
• Responsible for the sustaining in-production products including early field failure analysis (EFFA), design improvements, rework, and setting ongoing reliability testing specs (ORT)

You Have

• 3-6 years direct or equivalent work experience
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or Product Design or two additional years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree
• Proven mechanical design experience
• Proficiency in industry standard CAD tools - SolidWorks a plus
• Designing parts with high cosmetic requirements
• Basic understanding of high volume manufacturing processes and DFM

Beneficial to have:

• Experience with contract manufacturers in Asia
• Experience in detailed failure analysis
• Experience with Finite Element Analysis

We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is an equal opportunity employer evaluating all employees and job applicants without regard to identity or any legally protected class. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
Block will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with state and local laws and "fair chance" ordinances.
Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate's starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.
To find a location's zone designation, please refer to this resource . If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information.
Zone A:
$142,000 - $213,000 USD
Zone B:
$134,900 - $202,300 USD
Zone C:
$127,800 - $191,600 USD
Zone D:
$120,700 - $181,100 USD
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.