Technical Lead Engineer – Active with Bike

Bring your life

Want to join a dynamic team creating world-leading products that make it easy to bring what you care about - securely and in style - while living an active life If youre a team player who thrives in a sustainability-driven environment and wants to shape products that inspire an active lifestyle this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

What youll do at Thule

As a Technical Lead Engineer - Active with Bike you will play a key role in our design engineering team developing technical solutions for our American bike racks and related accessories. This is a growing and strategically important product category for our American market and manufacturing and we are expanding the team to meet a strong project pipeline.

In this role you will ensure a structured development process while adhering to project and engineering routines. You will take an active role in prioritizing and managing the technical aspects and delegating engineering tasks within the team throughout the process. This includes evaluating prototypes analyzing test results validating design strength documenting technical aspects and managing design risks.

You will have ownership of the technical content and direction of the product ensuring that our products are safe easy to use and uphold our premium quality standards. You will serve as a key problem solver and represent the design engineering team in close collaboration with project managers product managers purchasing prototype and other departments. Within cross-functional projects your role includes moderating technical discussions driving decision-making processes and ensuring alignment across teams to meet our high standards of quality innovation and sustainability.

Externally this position is titled Technical Lead Engineer to align with industry standards while the internal title at Thule is Chief Engineer.

What you bring

To be successful in this role we believe that you have an academic degree in mechanical design engineering or similar and extensive documented experience within mechanical design engineering.

We also believe you have experience working with different materials including sheet metal processing and plastics for injection-molded components and understand how to optimize them for functionality strength and safety. Experience with consumer goods is also considered important. You are fluent in English both spoken and written.

As the role involves practical elements we assume that you thrive in environments with hands-on product development. You are self-driven structured and have a good ability to prioritize various projects and tasks.

Why you should join Thule

At Thule we believe in strong teamwork both within your own team but also cross-functional between teams. We strive to be an open and curious organization sharing our knowledge and inspiring one another. Within Thule Group you will find people who have a passion for the products we make and the outdoor company we are. We share the same values and we like to have fun. All of our employees have a joint responsibility to maintain that spirit and contribute to it.

Hiring Process

Apply by submitting your application and resumé through Apply for position on our Thule Career Site. The application deadline is October 31 2025.

Please make sure to not wait to show your interest until the last application date as interviews are held continuously during the process and the position might be filled before the last application date. Please also note that we do not accept applications by e-mail.

If you have any questions about the role feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner Oscar Persson at

We look forward to hearing from you!

About Thule Group

Thule is a global sports and outdoor company. We offer high-quality products with smart features and a sustainable design that make it easy for people across the globe to live an active life. Under the motto Bring your life and with a focus on consumer-driven innovation and long-term sustainability we develop manufacture and market products within the product categories Sport & Cargo Carriers (roof racks roof boxes and carriers for transporting cycling water and winter sports equipment and rooftop tents mounted on a car) Active with Kids & Dogs (car seats strollers bike trailers child bike seats and dog transport) RV Products (awnings bike carriers and tents for RVs and caravans) and Bags & Mounts (backpacks luggage and performance mounts).

Thule Group has about 2800 employees at nine production facilities and 35 sales offices worldwide. The Groups products are sold in 138 markets and in 2024 sales amounted to SEK 9.5 billion.