# Product Design Engineer (Consumer Electronics) at Proto-Town

Product Design Engineer (Consumer Electronics) at Proto-Town in Lockhart. On-site, full-time. Posted August 5, 2026.

- Company: Proto-Town
- Location: Lockhart
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2026-08-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/proto-town/ece1ec23-934a-479f-a00d-f336717442f3/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/product-design-engineer-consumer-electronics-proto-town-p4t8fz

## Requirements

- Design judgment: a point of view about why one form factor, radius, or weight feels better than another, and the ability to explain it
- 3+ years designing physical consumer products that shipped, or an equivalent portfolio of built work
- Strong CAD skills in [SolidWorks / Creo / NX / Fusion 360]
- Hands-on prototyping ability: you're comfortable on a lathe, mill, printer, and soldering iron
- Electrical self-sufficiency: you can spec parts, wire up a dev board, lay out a simple PCB, and debug your own hardware with a multimeter and a scope
- Enough coding skill to make a prototype behave: Python, C/C++, Arduino

## Description

### **About the role**

We're looking for a Product Design Engineer who can shape how a product looks and feels, and then build the prototype that proves it works.
The design work and the engineering work belong to the same person here: you. If you like owning something from a rough idea through to a working object a person can pick up and use, this is that job.
There is no team to hand this off to. You're starting from a blank slate and you own everything between that and a unit someone can hold and turn on. You'll have real input on what we build, not just how we build it.

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**What you'll do**

- Develop the user experience and physical design of the product: form, proportion, ergonomics, materials, and finish

- Take concepts to functional prototypes: CAD, 3D printing, PCB design, machining, fixturing, hand fabrication, and assembly

- Source and integrate parts and tools

### **What we're looking for**

- Design judgment: a point of view about why one form factor, radius, or weight feels better than another, and the ability to explain it

- 3+ years designing physical consumer products that shipped, or an equivalent portfolio of built work

- Strong CAD skills in [SolidWorks / Creo / NX / Fusion 360]

- Hands-on prototyping ability: you're comfortable on a lathe, mill, printer, and soldering iron

- Electrical self-sufficiency: you can spec parts, wire up a dev board, lay out a simple PCB, and debug your own hardware with a multimeter and a scope

- Enough coding skill to make a prototype behave: Python, C/C++, Arduino