Position Overview
Senior Protocol Development Test Engineer (Sr. PDTE) – responsible for developing innovative test protocols to ensure our new products meet the high demands of consumers. The role involves working closely with engineering and product development teams to challenge design assumptions, validate performance, and maintain product safety.
Responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the consumer by developing protocols/tests that evaluate product requirements against targets set by Product Development.
- Act as the protocol/test/safety/performance standards "expert" for cross‑functional team member questions and concerns.
- Identify and work with internal/external SMEs across multiple engineering disciplines.
- Present status of activities and special projects to senior/executive management regularly.
- Take a lead role (independently and in teams) to solve technical issues found in product development.
- Mentor more junior team members, support all team members, and encourage their efforts.
- Collaborate to establish a project’s user design and functional requirements by delivering robust test protocols, validating through testing, and building consensus on next steps.
- Own protocol development throughout conception, CAD execution, prototyping and verification, while consistently working at a fast pace and enabling the team to do the same.
- Work closely with engineering teams on design approaches to create testing rigs that evaluate product performance.
- Collaborate seamlessly with UK, BOS, AL, and China‑based Product Development teams to ensure great ideas make it through to production.
- Request and/or run competitive product analyses, giving business partners insight into how Shark stacks up against the competition.
- Request and analyze market research to identify consumer real‑world behaviors.
Qualifications
- BSEE, BSME or similar technical discipline major.
- 5+ years of product test engineering experience.
- Prior experience designing or analyzing electromechanical systems.
- Ability to design and assemble full‑scale test fixtures.
- Data analysis around general statistics (Tukey Range, T‑tests, etc.).
- Excellent oral and written communication to create reports, write business correspondence, & develop procedures.
- Change agent with energy, passion, and enthusiasm to drive change.
- Analytical, problem‑solving, and root‑cause analysis skills.
- Ability to multi‑task and handle tasks with competing priorities effectively.
- Proficient in all MS Office.
- Knowledge of setting up Design of Experiments.
Desired Attributes
- Experience using JIRA or other project management tools.
- Experience using Minitab or equivalent stats software.
- 3D modeling.
- Model shop experience.
- Experience with Arduino, RaspberryPi, scripting (including Python).
Salary and Compensation
The annual salary range for this position is displayed below. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts (HSA) with company contribution
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Employee stock purchase program
- Life insurance
- AD&D
- Short‑term disability insurance
- Long‑term disability insurance
- Generous paid time off