Senior Development and Mechanical Engineer

Berlin
RND & Product – 51.1. RND - Research and Development /
Full time /
Hybrid
Lovehoney Group is the world’s leading sexual wellbeing company. We offer exciting brands with innovative, high-quality sex toys, lingerie, and accessories in a smooth online shopping experience.  

Lovehoney employs over 900 awesome, diverse & driven people throughout our 9 offices across the globe, celebrating a broad spectrum of talents in engineering, industrial design, sales, and marketing. 

We are proud to be a company that thrives by doing things differently, challenging expectations and stereotypes while making a positive impact on our customers’ lives.  

We are currently recruiting a Senior Development and Mechanical Engineer who will be integral to driving high-level performance across Lovehoney Group. Your focus will be on conceptualizing, designing, and prototyping innovative consumer electronics. You will oversee the transition of prototypes to commercial products, coordinating projects with stakeholders including manufacturers and supplier, designing test rigs, and improving designs based on laboratory measurements, user testing, and structural-mechanical simulations.

What you will do

    • Concept, design, and build prototypes of new components or product concepts in the field of innovative consumer electronics.
    • Graduate prototypes to commercial products through the design of parts and assemblies for release into mass production.
    • Co-ordinate projects and working packages with our manufacturers in China, our sourcing, quality, and compliance as well as testing and product portfolio management team, external contractors, research institutes and universities.
    • Improve design based on prototype laboratory measurements and user testing results focusing on system efficiency, volumetric and gravimetric power densities, operation range extension, lifetime increase, and noise reduction.
    • Generate FEM-models to perform structural-mechanical simulations (modal analysis)

What you should bring

    • Degree in Product Design, Industrial Design, Mechanical Engineering, or related majors Masters or PhD advantage, with 7+ years proven experience developing innovative, creative, mechanical and electronic consumer product designs.
    • Practical experience in generative prototyping
    • Expert knowledge of SolidWorks with extensive surfacing experience designing organic geometries.
    • Strong understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and design for manufacturability principles.
    • Excellent oral and written English communications skills. German or Chinese language – advantage.

What we can offer you

    • A welcoming workplace full of drinks, snacks, and friendly faces, as well as a range of benefits that make working with us an unforgettable experience. 
    • Fun team-building events, including dinners, barbecues, and games, that bring our team together and foster a sense of community 
    • Discount Shopping Portal: Access to unique discounts at high street retailers, hotels, and service providers through Perks at Work. 
    • A hybrid work model that allows for flexibility and work-life balance, with three days a week in-office 
    • 25 holiday days a year, plus an extra day for every year you are with Lovehoney, giving you plenty of time to rest, recharge, and explore 
Lovehoney Group is an equal opportunities employer. We promise that every qualified person will be evaluated according to skills regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation 

We currently have a hybrid work model supporting a blend of in-office and remote work (3 days per week in-office) 

If we have got you interested and you are open to taking the next step, please visit our Lovehoney careers page to apply: https://jobs.eu.lever.co/lovehoneygroup 

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