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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.
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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.
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