Contract: Full-time Department: Support Business Unit (Performance Sportswear & Intimates Apparel) Reports to: Project Manager, Support BU RHEON Labs is an ingredient technology company that develops patented strain-rate-sensitive polymer technologies designed to improve comfort, support, protection, and performance. Our materials are integrated into products used by some of the world's leading sportswear, apparel, and protective equipment brands. The Support Business Unit specialises in the integration of RHEON™ technology into performance sportswear, working directly with global brands, garment manufacturers, and material suppliers to develop commercially viable products that deliver measurable performance benefits. We are looking for a Computational Designer to create parametric RHEON™ artworks for performance apparel. Working in Rhino and Grasshopper with our existing design toolkit, you will combine body-mapped data, test results and brand design language into artworks that go into sports bras, running tights, shorts and base layers. This is an early-career role, and we have written it that way deliberately. Combine body-mapped data, test results and brand design language into RHEON™ film components. Prepare clean, production-ready cutting files, and keep your work organised so others can pick it up. Product Development & Testing Translate brand design language and performance objectives into practical design options. Create renders, visualisations and concept presentations that show brand partners how RHEON™ could work in their products. Conduct data analysis of swatch- and product-level test data alongside wear-test feedback and biomechanical findings, and turn the results into actionable development improvements. Work with sportswear brands on live development projects, alongside your project manager. Build strong working relationships with brand design, development, innovation, and sourcing teams. Work with garment manufacturers and material suppliers on production readiness, with support from the wider project team. Help prepare files and specifications for manufacturing trials and production runs. Troubleshoot technical, manufacturing, and product performance issues throughout development and production. Computational design skills turn up in architecture, product and industrial design, engineering, digital fabrication and computational arts, and in people who are entirely self-taught. Experience within performance sportswear, apparel, footwear, or wearable products. Knowledge of biomechanics, human performance, athlete testing, or apparel construction. Experience with laser cutting, CNC or other digital fabrication, including preparing files for production. Creating tools & plug-ins and/or scripting in Python or C# within Grasshopper. Rendering and visualisation, with a preference towards the garment space (e.g. Clo3D, Marvelous Designer, KeyShot, Blender, Photoshop or similar). You are producing laser cut artworks in Grasshopper that the team is using in live brand projects. You are turning body-mapping and test data into artworks with limited supervision, and the design cycle on your projects is getting shorter. You are working on multiple projects concurrently and you are trusted to take a brief from data through to cutting file on your own. 30 days (plus bank holidays) holiday allowance. ~ Regular Social Events. ~ A collaborative team environment, where your work ends up in products made by brands you have heard of. ~ We will back training and time spent developing your computational design skills. This role sits at the intersection of computational design, material science and sport, helping some of the world’s leading brands bring next-generation performance apparel to market. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete a short Grasshopper design exercise that is in line with what the work at RHEON might look like.
