[Remote] Principal Engineer, Product Development (Remote)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Harbor Freight Tools is seeking a Principal Engineer, Product Development, responsible for delivering superior product enhancements that align with market needs. This role involves synchronizing product initiatives across various departments and ensuring timely product launches while focusing equally on new product development and the enhancement of existing products.

Responsibilities

• Execute targeted development calendars to ensure that product processes ultimately achieve performance, quality, and time-to-market goals
• Deliver best-in-class product features that increase top-line sales, reduce returns, and drive brand equity
• Ensure compliance with core company values and consistently drive improvement while championing transparent collaboration with other key stakeholders in the business
• Develop preventative action plans and catch-all processes to keep quality and performance levels consistent
• Enhance existing product performance and quality to compete with market leaders
• Identify market opportunities for new product development projects to drive larger market share
• Confer with management, production, and marketing staff to discuss product/project specifications and procedures
• Make detailed plans to accomplish goals and integrate technical activities
• Analyze technology, resource needs, and market demand to plan and assess the feasibility of products/projects
• Review and approve product design and changes
• Assess current global development team, in-progress projects, the product roadmap, historical project delivery, tollgate process outcomes, and other products

Skills

• BS Engineering or similar undergraduate degree
• 8-10 years of related product development experience including a solid understanding of testing
• Understands how Development Engineering fits in the manufacturing business (Quality, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, and Marketing)
• Experience partnering with global development teams and a proven history of creating processes that deliver winning products to market
• A track record of successfully partnering with multiple cross functional key stakeholders, and ability to work in a highly collaborative environment
• Extensive problem solving experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience evaluating tools, offshore factories, and manufacturing processes in order to perform root cause analysis and implement sustainable solutions to improve product quality and performance
• Willingness to travel and work in China with excellent cultural sensitivity as well as genuine appreciation and respect for cultural differences
• Ability to travel frequently within China to various supplier manufacturing sites
• Ability to walk factory manufacturing operations and spend considerable time on the factory floor
• Must be able to perform this job safely in accordance with standard operating procedures and good manufacturing practices, without endangering the health or safety of self or others
• Prefer product development experience with welding equipment
• Standards and regulatory compliance standards: UL, CSA, ANSI, etc

Company Overview

• Harbor Freight Tools is a leader in providing high-quality tools at the lowest prices in the industry. It was founded in 1977, and is headquartered in Calabasas, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.harborfreightjobs.com/.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Harbor Freight Tools has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 6 in 2022, 4 in 2021, 1 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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