As a Lead Footwear Developer for Performance Trail, you will own the technical realization and process management of On’s most rugged off-road products. You will manage the entire development lifecycle—from initial concept to on-time production and commercialization—serving as a thought leader who ensures every innovation is grounded in technical reality. This role is for a developer who embodies the athlete spirit, possessing a deep curiosity to engineer industry-leading products for the most demanding environments.

Your Mission

• Process & Timeline Ownership: Own and represent the product development process for the Performance Trail category, ensuring all critical dates and calendar milestones are met through on-time production.
• Technical Stewardship: Act as the technical advisor during briefing and design phases to ensure complex trail concepts are aligned with performance metrics and global manufacturing capabilities.
• Communication Hub: Facilitate technical alignment between Zurich-based teams and Asia-based sourcing partners, acting as a "technical translator" to preserve the performance integrity of the trail category.
• Material & Tooling Expertise: Provide expert recommendations on specialized trail materials, high-traction compounds, and technical tooling to balance functional requirements with pricing targets.
• Validation & Insight: Work hand-in-hand with the testing team and biomechanics experts to validate prototypes, utilizing an athlete and consumer insight mindset to solve complex off-road hurdles.
• Cost & Efficiency Management: Monitor product costs and identify opportunities for construction efficiencies without compromising the technical "soul" of the trail product.

Innovation Commercialization: Partner closely with the innovation team to successfully bring new trail-specific technologies and "Swiss Engineering" breakthroughs to market.

Your Story

• Experience: 6+ years of experience in the footwear industry, with a background rooted in high-performance running/trail and technical outdoor complexity.
• Trail Thought Leadership: Recognized for your extensive knowledge of the trail running industry and your ability to translate athlete needs into industry-leading technical solutions.
• Advanced Development Expertise: Proven knowledge in the end-to-end product development process; including prototyping and sampling management.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong ability to connect, lead and influence diverse teams—including design, product marketing, and innovation—across different geographical locations.
• Strategic Judgment: Highly skilled at evaluating technical trade-offs to balance cutting-edge innovation with commercial scalability.
• The Athlete Spirit: You possess a genuine passion for the trails and a relentless drive to build the best fitting, performing, and desirable trail products in the market.

Your Team

You will join the Zurich-based Footwear Development team, a high-performance collective of engineers, developers, and makers who serve as the technical heart of the brand. In Zurich, our team acts as the primary link between the Consumer, Athlete, Biomechanical Research, Material Science, Design, and Sourcing, ensuring that every innovation is grounded in technical reality before it reaches the athlete.

Our mission is to relentlessly elevate the performance and technical attributes of our running footwear. We don't just facilitate product creation; we engineer the "ride." As part of the Performance Run vertical, you will be surrounded by specialists who are obsessed with creating the best fitting, performing and desirable running product in the market. We pride ourselves on a culture of technical rigor and "Swiss Engineering," where we challenge the status quo to create the highest performing and desirable product in the industry. Your role within this team is to ensure that as our category expands, our technical standards and the performance "soul" of our run footwear remain uncompromised.

In short

As Footwear Tooling Engineer you will create groundbreaking concepts and products for high-performance athletes while advancing On’s sustainability goals. Working in a collaborative environment, you’ll shape the future direction of our pinnacle performance product and technologies through Innovation and Design.

You will act as the owner of the bottom unit development for our pinnacle performance product and technologies. You will work in close collaboration with designers and developers here at On Labs in Zurich and our Tooling team in Vietnam to create the highest quality products. From concept creation through prototyping, you will guide the team on bottom unit materials, geometries, and construction from a critical manufacturing, biomechanical performance, and durability viewpoint. You will also be a key player in identifying and creating process improvements for all bottom unit development across the company.

Your mission

- Lead the bottom unit development for On’s performance products

- Provide solutions to design and construction constraints by using your demonstrated knowledge of materials, mold construction and manufacturing

- Evaluate and improve product designs for manufacturability and durability by reviewing 2D/3D CADs, prototypes, and feedback from the testing teams

- Ensure alignment with product specifications and manufacturing capabilities

- Use your understanding of plastics injection molding to advise cost, design, and molding capabilities of injected components in the bottom unit

- Collaborate with our Asian counterparts and support mold shop teams on tooling revisions and manufacturing concerns

- Assist the development, product management, and design teams with any tooling related questions or issues

- Evaluate current workflows and create process improvements to maximize efficiencies and advance testing

Your story

- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, or a related field

- Minimum of 5 years experience within a footwear engineering role working closely with development and production, ideally in a footwear tooling development

- Technical knowledge of various materials, mold construction, and manufacturing processes relevant to footwear; In-depth knowledge of plastics injection molding principles, including advising on cost, design, and molding capabilities of injected components

- Experience working with 2D and 3D CADs (Rhino a bonus); proficiency in reviewing and evaluating 2D/3D CADs for manufacturability, durability, and alignment with product specifications

- Experience in 3D modelling and rapid prototyping tools

- Demonstrated experience in project management, costing, and the ability to provide solutions within complex constraints

- Experience working with biomechanical performance principles as they relate to footwear bottom unit design

- Experience working cross-functionally across designers, developers, product management, and testing teams

- Experience collaborating with international manufacturing partners on tooling revisions and manufacturing concerns

- Strong communication skills to provide clear guidance and technical support to various stakeholders.

- Excellent time management skills and ability to work with multiple deadlines

- Available to travel to Asia at least 2 times a year

The team

Our mission is to define and create the future of sportswear bringing to life groundbreaking innovations. Acting at the forefront of material science, sport science and engineering we develop products that push the boundaries of performance and sustainability, blending in unique aesthetic appeal that embodies On’s design DNA.

Job Summary

The Systems Engineer plays a critical role in designing, integrating, and validating complex hardware systems across the full product lifecycle. This engineer works closely with cross functional teams including electrical engineering, firmware, mechanical design, manufacturing, software engineering and product management to ensure that system level hardware solutions meet performance, reliability, regulatory, and cost targets. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with systems thinking, hands-on validation skills, and excellent communication.

Key Responsibilities

Hardware Architecture & System Design

• Design IoT hardware systems (Gateways and BLE Sensors) integrating microcontrollers/SoCs, sensors, wireless modules, and power management subsystems.
• Design end-to-end systems from physical sensor measurements to processed data delivery to customer APIs
• Specify and evaluate low power components to maximize uptime under variable sunlight conditions.
• Generate schematics, PCB layouts, BOMs, and documentation in accordance with industry standards.

Power Management & Energy Optimization

• Model and optimize energy budgets to ensure year-round autonomous operation.
• Validate system performance through simulation, bench testing, and long duration field trials.

Sensor & Connectivity Integration

• Integrate a variety of sensors (environmental, motion, positioning, etc.) with proper front‑end conditioning.
• Implement and test wireless communication modules such as LoRaWAN, NBIoT, LTEM, LTE Cat 1, Bluetooth LE, or proprietary RF.

Prototyping, Testing, and Validation

• Build and iterate hardware prototypes rapidly using development kits, custom PCBs, and test equipment.
• Perform environmental, thermal, vibration, and ingress protection testing for ruggedized IoT devices.
• Conduct structured debugging across power, digital, RF, and firmware hardware interfaces.

Manufacturing & Deployment Readiness

• Support DFM, DFA and DFT practices
• Support certification processes (CE, FCC, EMC, IECex and safety compliance).
• Provide technical guidance for field deployment, maintenance tools, and diagnostics.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in hardware systems engineering or embedded hardware development.
• Strong understanding of core subsystems:
  • Power management and battery systems
  • Microcontrollers and embedded architectures
  • Analog/digital circuit fundamentals
  • Sensors (motion, environmental, pressure, light, etc.)
  • RF systems (cellular, BLE, GNSS, WiFi), antennas, and integration considerations
• Working experience with developing software to evaluate systems, e.g., python, Java or Kotlin
• Hands‑on experience with lab equipment: oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, power measurement tools.
• Proven ability to perform system debugging across hardware, firmware, and mechanical interfaces.
• Experience creating system requirements, block diagrams, and integration test plans.
• Knowledge of EMC/EMI considerations, grounding, shielding, and layout best practices.
• Familiarity with reliability and environmental testing (HALT/HASS, vibration, thermal cycling).
• Excellent communication skills and ability to document and present technical details clearly.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with a systems-thinking mindset.

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Computer Vision)

Scandit gives people superpowers. Whether enabling delivery drivers to make quicker deliveries, matching a patient with their medication, or allowing retailers to make store operations more efficient, our technology automates workflows and provides actionable insights to help businesses in a variety of industries. Join us, as we continue to expand, grow and innovate, and help take Scandit to the next level.

About the role

We are looking for a new colleague to join the Label Capture team and work on creating digital twins of complex labels and identification documents. You will be responsible for evolving our current product by adding new features and optimizing the existing offering. You will work on computer vision and deep learning algorithms to improve information extraction from printed documents beyond state of the art.

If these challenges sound interesting to you, we’d love to hear from you!

What you will do

• Driving and solving semantic document parsing for our customer use cases
• Be involved hands on in all phases of end to end quality improvements (defining and tracking metrics, prototyping, testing, integration of existing models, creation of new models, data collection, analysis, debugging)
• Stay up to date with the latest research in document classification, text recognition and information extraction
• Set direction and identify opportunities to push boundaries of recognition
• Mentoring team members on code quality and engineering practices

Who you are 

You are a senior ML engineer who is passionate about building, shipping, and improving machine learning-powered systems. You have a proven track record of delivering state-of-the-art computer vision systems both on-device and on cloud and firsthand experience bringing them from the prototyping stage to production.

You recognize that software development encompasses both technology and human interaction and feel comfortable working independently or on a team. While you stay on top of the state-of-the-art in CV/ML, you value proven technologies and small increments. You are creative and determined to solve real-world problems by thinking outside the box and making an impact. You thrive on tackling open problems, taking ownership, and effectively overcoming obstacles. You pay attention to details and at the same time are able to take pragmatic shortcuts to reach our goals.

In particular, we are excited to hear from you if the following sounds like you:

• 5+ years of experience solving recognition problems in the industry with a proven track record of launched products
• Fluency in C++ and Python
• Running ML models on mobile devices
• Experience with relevant machine learning frameworks (Pytorch, Jax, Tensorflow)
• Skilled in software design, problem-solving, and debugging
• Experience in computer vision systems extracting information from printed documents or experience with fine-tuning of vision-language models is a plus

What we offer

Here are just some of the reasons why people choose to build their career at Scandit: 

• A highly skilled team and a fun environment where you can put your enthusiasm for cutting-edge technologies to use
• Hackathons 
• Flexible, office, hybrid or home working
• People-first culture
• Global team outings 
• Festive/end of year all company celebrations 
• Your birthday off 
• An attractive individual equity plan in a growth company 
• We are certified as a “Great Place to Work” in 7 countries!
• Excellent office infrastructure, optimized for hybrid working in Zurich, Warsaw, Tampere, and London
• Excellent support for remote work across Switzerland, Finland, Poland, UK, Italy and Germany
• Specific benefits related to the location you are joining

Who We Are

Scandit enables enterprises and consumers to change the way they interact with everyday objects and augment the physical world with real-time data captured by scanning barcodes and recognizing text, objects, and other visual identifiers using smartphones, tablets, wearables, drones and robots.

Scandit’s mobile data capture platform is built on proprietary computer vision, augmented reality, and machine learning technologies. Companies in industries such as retail, transportation & logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare can use Scandit’s technology to create and power mobile apps for crucial enterprise workflows like mobile point of sale, mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, and proof of delivery.

Many of the world’s most innovative and successful companies are benefiting from Scandit’s enterprise-grade mobile data capture platform, including Sephora, Nissan, DHL, and Levi Strauss & Co.

Scandit was founded by a group of researchers from ETH Zurich and MIT. The company is headquartered in Zurich and is also represented in Boston, London, Warsaw, Tokyo and Tampere. Over the years, our company has evolved into a world-class team of mobile image processing, cloud-computing and “Internet of Things” experts from around the globe and has most recently also opened an office in Tampere, Finland.

“Everybody is welcome here” - Is a celebrated component of our DNA.

At Scandit we strive to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees. We believe that our products and services benefit from our diverse backgrounds and experiences and are proud to be a safe space for all.

All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical [dis]ability or length of time spent unemployed.

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