Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer- Sustainability​/Shark

SharkNinja is seeking a Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer- Sustainability in Needham, IN, to develop environmentally advanced consumer products. The role involves hands-on engineering, focusing on energy efficiency and sustainable materials, while collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should possess strong problem-solving skills and a passion for innovation. This position is part of a dynamic team dedicated to reducing environmental impact and delivering high-quality products.
Position: Senior R&D Mechanical Engineer- Sustainability (Shark) (Hiring Immediately)
Location: Needham

About Us

Shark Ninja is a global product design and technology company, with a diversified portfolio of 5-star rated lifestyle solutions that positively impact people’s lives in homes around the world. Powered by two trusted, global brands, Shark and Ninja, the company has a proven track record of bringing disruptive innovation to market, and developing one consumer product after another has allowed Shark Ninja to enter multiple product categories, driving significant growth and market share gains.

Headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts with more than 3,300+ associates, the company’s products are sold at key retailers, online and offline, and through distributors around the world.

Our purpose is to positively impact people’s lives every day in every home around the world! We work very hard to provide our consumers with high-quality, exciting 5-star products that make life easier. We thrive on passion and innovation and are looking for great people, with great ideas, who want to build the next big thing and develop while they do. 

Are you ready to take your Mechanical Engineering skills to the next level and join a company that thrives on Innovation?  If yes, I have the perfect position for you!  

Our mission to positively impact people's lives every day in every home around the world allows our employees to be thinkers and tinkerers, designers and doers, creators and number crunchers, makers of things they love.  As we continue to grow, we are excited to add a Senior Sustainability Mechanical Engineer to our global team.  

Overview:  

The R&D Team at Shark Ninja is looking for dynamic, creative, talented, inspirational, and committed Senior Sustainability Mechanical Engineer to help deliver an extraordinary pipeline of new, environmentally advanced products.   

Shark Ninja is committed to reducing our environmental impacts and is seeking a creative problem solver to advance the development of low carbon products. This individual possesses an intuitive grasp of physics and engineering fundamentals, is equally comfortable hacking together a prototype in the lab or analyzing the results of a test, and is passionate about solving the tough engineering challenges required to deliver environmentally sustainable product innovations to market.  

This role calls for an experienced hands-on engineer who has a deep understanding of energy efficiency and sustainable material technologies, a natural curiosity and creativity on how to leverage them in new ways, and an ability to collaborate cross functionally with engineering and product development teams to help bring these products to market.  

EXCITING things you’ll get to do:  
• Actively support the development of sustainable consumer products by identifying lower impact opportunities and using hands-on design skills, testing and problem solving to demonstrate the feasibility of your solutions.
• Investigate and identify both commercially available and next generation technologies to greatly improve the energy efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of key products
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Development teams daily to rapidly progress the understanding of systems, environmental performance levers, and tradeoffs  
• Bring together team members from other disciplines to brainstorm, solve problems, build proof-of-concept prototypes, and test them thoroughly  
• Work closely with and guide co-ops and interns   
• See the culmination of your efforts with the team come to life on the shelf in stores, online, and in infomercials through products with a reduced carbon footprint  

Attributes and Skills:  
• BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering    
• 5+ years of related experience in design and development