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Build the next generation of safety products in Monaco. This Product Design Engineer role offers €50,000-€55,000, bonus potential, paid commute support and rare exposure to early-stage product innovation. You’ll join an R&D team turning materials science into real prototypes, test evidence and future product opportunities, with proper lab access and visible influence on what gets developed next.
Scope of the role
This Product Design Engineer role sits in Advanced Concepts, bridging research and applied product development. You’ll take emerging technologies and turn them into credible, testable product ideas that can move into development.
- Translate R&D outputs into proof-of-concept products, prototypes and testable configurations
- Build CAD models and physical concepts for lab evaluation
- Run validation work with testing, benchmarking and structured experimentation
- Explore new applications, markets and use-cases for advanced safety technology
- Hand off de-risked concepts to design and NPD teams with clear documentation
Key skills and experience required
- Proven experience as a Product Design Engineer, Mechanical Design Engineer or Product Development Engineer
- Strong CAD, prototyping and hands-on testing experience
- Comfortable working through ambiguity, incomplete data and evolving briefs
- Knowledge of plastics, foams, structural components and relevant manufacturing processes
- Experience supporting lab tests, user studies or structured validation programmes
Salary and benefits
- Basic salary: €50,000-€55,000
- Bonus of up to one month’s salary after year one
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- Healthcare top-up provided
- Nice-Monaco commute costs covered
- €200 annual social budget
- 1 day working from home after 3-month probation
This Product Design Engineer role would suit someone who enjoys the front end of innovation, not just delivery. It is ideal for a Design Engineer or Mechanical Design Engineer who likes connecting engineering, testing and commercial relevance. The team is international, technically serious and office-first, with strong lab facilities and a culture that values curiosity, practical problem-solving and honest collaboration. For the right Product Design Engineer, this is a chance to do meaningful development work in a genuinely distinctive setting.
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