Product Design Engineer

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

 You will:

  • Work closely with Industrial Design & Product teams to architect and refine new product concepts.

  • Develop rapid prototypes using common prototyping techniques such as 3D printing, machining, etc.

  • Design high volume & high cosmetic plastic and metal parts.

  • Work closely with cross functional teams such as Electrical Engineering, Factory Test, Factory Quality, and our Operations teams to design and validate new products.

  • Forge strong partnerships with our CMs to ensure successful builds.

  • Effectively communicate your designs in CAD, Keynote, or Powerpoint, and in front of a group.

 

Unique aspects to the Square Product Design team:

  • Ownership of elements of product and engineering program management especially in early project phases.

  • Responsible for tooling bring up and manufacturing design engineering of all new tools and processes.

  • Incorporating security elements in our designs for tamper detection and prevention.

  • Working with our CM partners in both OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) and JDM (Joint Design Manufacturing) models.

  • Responsible for reliability testing including putting together a validation plan, leveraging our CM partner’s DQE teams to perform the testing, and reviewing, presenting and approving the data.

  • Responsible for the sustaining in-production products including early field failure analysis (EFFA), design improvements, rework, and setting ongoing reliability testing specs (ORT)

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Qualifications

You have:

  • BS or MS in Mechanical Engineering or Product Design

  • Minimum of 4 years direct or equivalent work experience 

  • Proficiency in industry standard CAD tools - SolidWorks a plus

  • Tooling experience, especially parts with high cosmetic requirements

  • In-depth understanding of high volume manufacturing processes and DFM

  • Extensive experience onsite with contract manufacturers in Asia

  • Experience in detailed failure analysis

  • Experience with Finite Element Analysis - a plus

 

Products we work on:

  • Square Register

  • Square Stand

  • Square Contactless + Chip Reader

  • Square Chip Card Reader

  • Square Magstripe Card Reader

  • Dock for Square Reader

  • Many more to come.

Additional Information

At Square, our purpose is to empower – within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible.

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