We’re looking for a Senior Product Design Engineer to develop commercially viable, market-ready engineering solutions with a strong focus on feasibility, material excellence, structural integrity, and manufacturability.
In this role, you’ll work at the front end of the product lifecycle, bridging the gap between innovative concepts and scalable mass production. You’ll act as a key technical expert, using your deep understanding of materials and structures, to ensure new product designs are robust, high-performing, and optimised for dynamic environments.
Please note; this role is offered as an 18 month fixed term contract.
#LI-CG1What You'll Do 💭
Create innovative, consumer-focused products engineered to withstand demanding automotive & active-use environments
Support research and feasibility assessments for new technologies, materials and product concepts
Translate customer and market needs into clear engineering requirements, design tasks and measurable performance benchmarks
Prototype, test and refine concepts through iterative design-build-test cycles
Manage concurrent design projects, ensuring they are completed within set timeframes and meet all structural performance constraints
Seek to eliminate technical and functional risks during the design phase, utilising engineering principles to predict how materials and geometries will behave during dynamic events
Create detailed parametric 3D CAD models, drawings, specifications and BOMs using SolidWorks
Review and conduct testing on pre-production samples
Work with the Manufacturing team, suppliers and manufacturers to obtain quotations and DFM input
Design and develop products that are consistent and recognisable via visual brand language & styling
Coordinate the design and engineering product packaging solutions to set parameters
Contribute to a positive, collaborative and respectful design team culture
What You'll Bring 🤝
- Extensive experience in a similar role, creating innovative, consumer-led product design solutions
Bachelor’s degree in Product Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Technology
Ability to interpret and convert high level product requirements into executable and clear design tasks
Able to clearly communicate design ideas and concepts via sketching, CAD modelling and various methods of prototyping
Comprehensive understanding of design & engineering principles and highly capable of applying these during the product development process
Ability to generate fully defined parametric 3D CAD models for manufacturing and illustrative purposes utilising SolidWorks
Experience in iterative concept validation and the fabrication of prototypes for testing form, fit, and functional mechanical performance
Extensive experience and understanding of DFM design for manufacturing principles, with the ability to apply these in practice when developing product design solutions
Excellent knowledge & understanding of various manufacturing processes and production methods
Effective time management skills to achieve all objectives within defined time frames and commercial constraints
Sound knowledge of Microsoft programs including Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook
Desirable Experience:Hands-on knowledge in a wide range of polymers and elastomers, particularly their behaviour under dynamic loading
Track record of designing products for impact, vibration, dampening or other dynamic environments
Experience interfacing with customers in the automotive OEM industry or equivalent sectors
If You Were In This Role Last Week...
Last week, you may have provided your technical input into a new product idea during a Design Review, refined a concept in SolidWorks before testing a prototype to breaking point in the Dungeon lab, discussed off-tool sample feedback with suppliers, and worked with the design team to improve performance, fit, packaging and brand alignment before the next development milestone.
Skills Required
- Extensive experience in a similar role
- Bachelor's degree in Product Design Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design or Technology
- Ability to interpret and convert high level product requirements into executable and clear design tasks
- Able to clearly communicate design ideas and concepts via sketching and CAD modelling
- Comprehensive understanding of design & engineering principles
- Ability to generate fully defined parametric 3D CAD models using SolidWorks
- Experience in iterative concept validation and prototype fabrication
- Extensive experience with DFM design for manufacturing principles
- Excellent knowledge of manufacturing processes and production methods
- Effective time management skills to achieve objectives
What We Do
Quad Lock is an award winning and fast growing Melbourne based company that revolutionised the smartphone mounting game with our patented case-based mounting system. Originally launched in 2012, the Quad Lock range now includes mounts for Cycling, Motorcycling, Driving, Running, and a range of Lifestyle options. To date, millions of Quad Lock products have been shipped to over 100 countries.
