At Smart Design, the Engineering practice is tightly integrated with all of the design disciplines helping teams to identify opportunities for design to help people in their everyday lives. A primary focus of the engineering team is to discover & prove out opportunities for innovation early in the design process & to work collaboratively on solving the resulting technical challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Act as supporting team members on client projects working closely with designers during ideation to ensure technical feasibility & design for manufacturing
• Participate in engineering brainstorms to come up with multiple ideas to solve technical problems
• Prototype & model making at varying levels of fidelity, mechanism design, 3D CAD (ProE/Creo preferred), technical documentation
• Clearly communicate technical decisions & able to communicate basic technical requirements
• Performs some engineering analysis through testing
• Involved in user research

Naturally, you have:

• Has or working towards a degree in mechanical engineering or related field
• At least 1 co-op or engineering internship
• Hands on model making skills including prototyping / wood working / machining / welding
• User research experience - talking to real users is a bonus!
• An incurable curiosity relating to all things design
• No fear of teamwork, brainstorming sessions or presenting in front of your team
• Healthy email habits, making you a communicative & responsive team player
• A portfolio or case study examples that show your engineering process (sketches, analysis, prototypes, CAD, & final design)