Technical Product Engineer

Vor 7 Tagen

Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland Midea Europe GmbH Vollzeit

Your responsibilities

As Technical Product Engineer, you combine strong engineering expertise with a deep understanding of European market and customer needs. You translate these needs into technically feasible product solutions and work closely with Midea HQ R&D in China to bring products from definition and development through testing and validation to successful market introduction.

Your Responsibilities:

  • Analyze European market trends, consumer needs, competitor products and emerging technologies to identify product opportunities and improvement potential.
  • Translate European customer and market needs into clear product requirements, technical specifications and performance targets.
  • Define and evaluate product features and technical solutions regarding customer value, feasibility, performance, cost and competitiveness.
  • Act as a key technical product interface between European stakeholders and Midea HQ R&D teams in China, ensuring that European market requirements are properly understood and implemented.
  • Coordinate and support product development activities from product definition and concept evaluation through prototype development, testing and validation to market readiness.
  • Define product validation requirements and acceptance criteria and actively participate in design reviews, prototype evaluations and product testing.
  • Analyze product and test results, identify technical or product-related gaps and drive improvements together with R&D and engineering teams.
  • Contribute to the European product and technology roadmap and identify opportunities for new features, technologies and product solutions.
  • Work closely with R&D, Product Management, Sales & Marketing, Quality, Sourcing and Manufacturing throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Provide technical product expertise for customer meetings, product demonstrations, trade fairs and product launches.
  • Build strong cross-functional collaboration between teams in Europe and China to ensure successful product development and market introduction.

Your profile

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Mechatronics, Product Engineering or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of relevant experience in product development, R&D or product engineering, ideally within home appliances or consumer electronics.
  • Strong technical knowledge of microwave ovens, ovens, cooking appliances or related technologies.
  • Proven experience across the product development lifecycle from concept and requirements through development, testing and validation to market launch.
  • Ability to translate customer and market needs into clear product requirements and technical specifications.
  • Good understanding of European consumer needs, market trends and competitive products.
  • Experience working with international and cross-functional R&D/engineering teams.
  • Strong project coordination, analytical and problem-solving skills with a customer- and solution-oriented mindset.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.