Philips Product Engineer/Function Developer - Philips Avent 

Netherlands, North Brabant 

68698588

Your role:

• Develop innovative mechanical functions for our Breast Feeding (breast pumps) and Infant Feeding (bottles)/Comforting (soothers) portfolio and other categories.
• Lead and execute technology feasibility investigations aligned with our strategy.
• Translate consumer insights into new product ideas and optimizations.
• Stay ahead by monitoring competitor products and performances.
• Collaborate closely with research peers to integrate infant and mom physiology understanding into our product functions.
• Embrace a fast-iteration approach from ideation to implementation.
• Work with our cost engineering team to balance quality and cost.
• Optimize designs for manufacturability in partnership with our industrialization team and suppliers.
• Ensure that new functions are aesthetically integrated without compromising core functionality together with our Design team.
• Create test and verification equipment together with our Test & Verification team to ensure high product quality.
• Test and validate new product functionalities alongside our consumer testing team.
• Communicate new functionalities clearly across our organization.
• Generate Invention Disclosure ideas and assess competitors' patents for potential infringements.

You're the right fit if:

• Minimum of 4 years of combined professional and Graduate level in Mechanical Engineering or Industrial Design Engineering (with an Engineering focus) or Mechatronics.
• Highly Proficient in parametric 3D CAD modelling, preferably in Creo.
• Experience with or good understanding of pressure mechanisms like a "breast pump."
• Hands-on experience with mechanical product development in plastic, silicone products and metal forming.
• Proven experience in developing new functions in consumer products.
• Strong skills in optimizing designs for manufacturing.
• Ability to quickly iterate: ideate, design, build, measure, iterate.
• Experience in designing and co-developing test equipment for product functionality.
• Proficient in handling intellectual property, drafting ideas for patent filings, and assessing potential infringements.
• Preferred experience in prototyping electronics.

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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