Product Design Engineer in Edinburgh

Since launching the world’s first portable wood-pellet pizza oven in 2012, Ooni has grown into an award-winning, multinational company with a product range loved by pizza makers all over the globe. Our mission has always been to design innovative products that spark joy in our customers.

Are you passionate about turning trailblazing concepts into tangible reality? Do you have a proven track record of technical problem-solving and delivering mechanical solutions that thrive in the real world? Do you love tackling design challenges that solve user pain points and create genuine customer delight? If so, this is your time to shine. We are seeking a Product Design Engineer to join our world-class team. In this hands-on role, you will be in the engine room for our New Product Development (NPD), solving complex engineering problems across the design lifecycle; from initial product architecture to the mass production ramp. This is an on-site role, working a minimum of 4 days per week from our office in Broxburn, Scotland.

What You’ll Do

• Concept-to-Production Ownership: Drive the mechanical development of new products, translating Industrial Design (ID) intent into fully realised 3D CAD assemblies and technical specifications.
• Technical Architecture: Define product layouts that balance the Design Vision with mechanical constraints, ensuring internal components and mechanisms fit seamlessly within the design envelope.
• Design for Excellence (DfX): Ensure all designs are appropriate for part manufacture and assembly. You will optimise for cost-efficiency while ensuring mechanical robustness and quality are at the core of every part.
• Rapid Prototyping & Validation: Design and build high-fidelity prototypes using our workshop and test lab. You will develop and run rigorous test protocols to verify that your designs meet Ooni’s high-performance and safety standards.
• Tooling & Vendor Management: Collaborate closely with our Asia-Pacific manufacturing partners to oversee the transition to production. This includes reviewing ISIR reports, managing Engineering Builds and tool refinement and defining part quality.
• Production Implementation: Support the manufacturing team during Engineering and Pilot Builds, resolving technical bottlenecks on the production floor to ensure a successful mass-production ramp.
• Technical Documentation: Maintain precise engineering records, including detailed 2D drawings, BOMs, FMEAs and validation test reports to ensure full traceability.

Who You Are

• A Technical Maker: You have a solid grasp of mechanical engineering and love getting your hands dirty building and testing physical prototypes.
• Solution-Oriented: You don’t just identify constraints; you find the mechanical solutions that bridge the gap between a concept and a manufacturable product.
• Detail-Obsessed: You take pride in your CAD work and documentation, ensuring every tolerance is checked and every test result is captured.
• Collaborative: You thrive in an 'open-door' design culture, working cross-functionally with Category Management, ID, Quality, Compliance and CPI and Test teams to keep projects moving at Ooni speed.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Engineering Background: A degree in Mechanical, Product Design Engineering or relevant field.
• Professional Experience: Previous experience in an engineering role, specifically focused on taking consumer products through the full NPD lifecycle.
• CAD Mastery: Proficiency in 3D CAD (SolidWorks preferred) with experience in complex surface modeling and assembly management.
• Manufacturing Knowledge: Demonstrated technical proficiency in sheet metal work, plastic injection molding, and assembly processes.
• Communication: The ability to communicate complex technical challenges and solutions clearly with overseas manufacturing partners.

You’ll get bonus points if you have experience with the following:

• Six Sigma or equivalent methodologies
• Solidworks CAD software and sheet metal tool add ins
• Electrical and/or mechatronics design experience
• Deep draw sheet metal pressing and plastic part design for manufacture
• Additive and subtractive manufacturing techniques and technologies

Why Ooni?

When you join one of our global teams, you’re joining a dedicated group of do-ers who value Kindness, Passion, Innovation, Ambition and Rigor above all else. We live, work and play by these values and are proud of what we’ve built here. As a member of our team, you will also receive the following:

• Work for an employer that cares about your well-being! We’ve got private healthcare through Bupa as well as access to on-demand coaching and therapy sessions via BetterHelp
• £500 to spend on Ooni products each year, plus 50% discount on any other Ooni products.
• £500 every year to spend on your passion – whatever that may be.
• 35 days of paid time off per year, plus an additional 5 week sabbatical when you’ve been here for 5 years.
• Access to an employee assistance programme which includes on demand coaching.
• We believe in giving back to our communities, which is why we offer every team member five paid volunteer days each year to support causes they care about.
• Pizza is at the heart of everything we do, you’ll have access to our ovens in every office - and we’ll teach you to make pizza like a pro as part of your onboarding experience.