This role is on the Performance Engineering team within Global Footwear Engineering. The Performance Engineering team provides a competitive advantage by using the power of engineering, analytical, and simulation tools to offer footwear engineering insights to our Product Creation development teams.
This team is a centralized function that supports the product development teams and will help scale FEA capabilities to support Product Creation development projects. The role of this team is to use mechanical engineering expertise and simulation tools to provide guidance and insights to product engineers, designers, and technical developers to enable confident decision making.
This posting is for 2 positions within the Global Footwear Engineering function.
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH
In the Lead FEA Engineer role, you would report to and partner with the Director of Performance Engineering to collaborate with the Innovation FEA team, Product Creation footwear engineers, and mechanical test lab to develop and refine simulation methods to help ensure product performance and product excellence. You will also partner with the mechanical test lab, NSRL, and footwear product testing to develop and validate simulation methods to correlate to athlete* feedback.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
This role is a blend of highly technical mechanical engineering and creative problem solving. Candidates for this role need to have strong engineering skills and be eager to work with individuals from many different backgrounds. The right candidate will be a creative, analytical engineer with FEA experience who takes an entrepreneurial approach to helping teams understand and scope their work – applying a pragmatic approach to problem solving.
What experience you bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering or similar preferred
- A minimum of 6 years directly relevant work experience
- Experience applying engineering knowledge with a focus on engineering mechanics to explore, inform, and recommend engineering solutions
- Experience using FEA and other advanced engineering tools to provide engineering insights during multiple product development cycles
- 3+ years of experience using FEA tools (ANSYS, Abaqus, Hyperworks, etc.) and methods in a professional setting
- Demonstrated experience implementing new engineering capabilities or tools
- Proven ability to communicate and present technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
What additional experience is nice to have:
- Industry experience with FEA tools and methods specifically with non-linear materials and deformation
- Engineering experience in the footwear industry
- Experience using programming/scripting languages (Python, MATLAB, etc.)
- Strong understanding of Mechanics of Materials, including non-linear materials and deformation
- Navigating cross-functional teams and communicating with necessary stakeholders across the organization
- Experience working with global counterparts
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON
As The Lead FEA Engineer, you will work with project teams to diagnose and understand technical problems and use appropriate engineering tools (including FEA) to provide insights to inform decision making, manage risk, and build confidence in product performance. You will use your engineering problem solving skills, FEA (Finite Element Analysis), and other analytical tools to evaluate design concepts early in the development phase and troubleshoot performance issues that surface later in the development cycle. Additionally, this role will contribute to developing new engineering capabilities, simulation and non-simulation based, to advance footwear engineering at Nike. On a regular basis, your work will consist of:
- Meeting with footwear project teams to scope engineering needs
- Using FEA and other engineering tools to deliver product performance insights and help guide decision making and problem solving
- Developing and refining simulation methods
- Ongoing R&D projects to develop new methods of evaluating and predicting footwear performance
Top Skills
What We Do
At NIKE, Inc., it’s in our nature to innovate and our mission is to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world [if you have a body, you’re an athlete]. Because we exist to serve athletes, we dare to design the future of sport. To us, innovation is about elevating human potential. We obsess over the needs of athletes of all abilities, using their insights to create products that are beautiful, useful and make all athletes better. To make big leaps, we take big risks. Incremental change won’t get us to where we want to go fast enough. So we pursue moonshots — like developing the first self-lacing shoe, running the first two-hour marathon and committing to 100% renewable energy use in our facilities. We embrace different perspectives — from scientists and designers to coders and quarterbacks — because we know everyone brings unique experiences and ideas to the team. To serve athletes across the hundreds of countries where NIKE does business, we need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our consumers and a culture of inclusivity. We aim to foster inclusion and embrace diversity throughout our business, teams, and culture to create breakthrough innovations, empower teammates to realize their full potential and bring us closer to the communities we serve. NIKE's diverse, high-performing teams around the world are united in purpose and inspired to change the world through sport.
Why Work With Us
With a global footprint, culture of innovation and team-first mentality, we take action to create a future of continual progress for athletes, sport and our world. Whether our job is designing the ultimate sneaker or coding a revolutionary app, we’re united by the same mission: to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
Gallery
.jpeg)
.png)
