Lead Mechatronics Engineer Innovation

The Nike Explore Teams (NXT) Footwear Engineering and Manufacturing group invents and develops scalable digitallydriven methods of make that enable product innovation simplify manufacturing and reduce carbon through robust engineering and product integration.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We are seeking a curious and selfdriven Lead Mechatronics Engineer to join our team and utilize skills across mechanical electrical and software. Your handson experiences with machine design troubleshooting and product integration will be the foundation for the strategies you create to build new capabilities in our R&D setting. A trackrecord of selfdirected learning and collaborative problemsolving is essential. Creating complex systems in a rapidly changing environment will expose challenges that do not have a clear solutionpath. Part of your role will be landscaping and researching new hardware software and controls tools and becoming a subject matter expert in those areas. This is a Lead role and as such you will be expected to plan and execute strategies that leverage your expertise and develop team members both within and outside the Automation and Robotics functions.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will be assigned to multiple concurrent programs and act as a mechatronics resource to those teams clearly communicating and explaining capabilities and limitations in both technical and nontechnical manners. You will actively seek to understand and interpret program objectives and you will be responsible for translating those objectives into machine requirements and a risk assessment then developing solutions to meet those requirements through an iterative collaborative and datadriven approach.

A key enabler to our future capabilities is flexible and modular automation systems. So many of the solutions you identify will be electromechanical systems which include mechanical assemblies motioncontrol material handling work holding fixtures sensors and datalogging microcontrollers and power distribution. This will be a focusarea of yours and you will be expected to bring key insights from your experience to unlock new capabilities.

In earlystage programs you will design and build machine prototypes to test your ideas and provide a platform for Process Engineers and Material Scientists to define key process variables and interactions. As programs progress you will continue to develop the core automation system through both handson creation and through external partnerships that you manage. You will lead machine landscaping activities for potential offtheshelf components and subsystems and partner with Business Development Legal and Procurement functions to draft agreements with strategic parners and to purchase equipment.

After you validate and train others on the new systems you will continue to support the teams by troubleshooting and upgrading the systems in development inparticular the hardware and controls components and data acquisition. Throughout this journey you will leverage functional processes and bestpractices and identify improvements to these tools that can enable the team to work more efficiently.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will be working in a worldclass R&D facility with a dedicated machine shop testing lab and product creation team to assist you. Youll have support in embracing the handson parts of your role (fabricating assembling coding testing) but approaching with a growthmindset and a hunger to learn is essential. Alongside you in the creation of working proofofconcept cells will be Robotics Engineers. They will partner with you to create the vision systems and motioncontrol that will pair with the systems you are building in order to realize a fully functional machine.

In order for this machine to create revolutionary new footwear products you will also partner with Technical Program Managers Process Engineers Test Engineers and Technicians as your project coreteam members as well as Materials and Software experts where appropriate. Collaborating with these functions and standingup new capabilities in Innovation rewards systembased thinking and interdisciplinary problemsolving. You wont have all the answers but youll be able to ask good questions across a variety of subjectareas.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent combination of relevant education experience and training
• 7 years of applied experience in mechanical design machine design integration of hardware solutions robotics or other mechatronics roles with >3 of those years spent in an R&D environment.
• Experience as a technical lead within a multidisciplinary team that includes vendors integrators and process engineers
• Handson fabrication assembly and functional verification required
• Demonstrated trackrecord as a selfdirected learner
• Experience using parametric modeling software required
• Comfortable moving fast and working with incomplete information
• Comfortable utilizing project management tools for work
• Experience with robotics a plus

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for inperson interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.