Location: Portland, OR
Discipline: UX / Product Design
Experience: 7+ years
Compensation: TBD
Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team
NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.
The NXT Future Capabilities team invents and develops scalable, digitally-driven methods of make that enable product innovation, simplify manufacturing and reduce carbon through robust engineering and product integration.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
This is an opportunity to join Nike’s Advanced Innovation team as a member of the AIC Future Capabilities team. We are seeking a Lead Computational Engineer who has strong expertise in building tools that advance and automate computational design and engineering processes for footwear manufacturing. An understanding of materials, footwear and/or apparel product engineering is a benefit.
This Lead Computational Engineer role will be comfortable quickly prototyping solutions with various procedural tools including Rhino/Grasshopper. They can speak with domain experts across design and engineering to translate their knowledge into solutions. You understand how to integrate advanced, data-driven, and computational design practices with engineering best practices.
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WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
As a Lead Computational Engineer, you will be revolutionizing the intersection of technology, manufacturing and the R&D of physical products by delivering functional prototypes and proof of concepts. You will be exploring new concepts and ideas by delivering various solutions that will help to answer key questions. We seek experience with 3D tools, robotics and algorithms to develop solutions which bridge between digital and physical realms. You'll play a key role in the creation of next generation product design, engineering, and digital fabrication workflows that will help to craft the future of Nike’s innovation strategies. We value creative problem solvers that deliver disruptive product concepts, rapid prototypes, and can demonstrate future concepts. Our development approach emphasizes data-informed decision-making in a collaborative environment with iterative refinement. This role will focus on identifying customer goals, defining problems, landscaping new tools with a clear outlook on how to implement them, their effective usage, and their ROI.
