Product Design Engineer

Location: Remote-based position.

About the Role: The Project Design Engineer serves as a technical partner to the Commercial Sales team, responsible for scoping and validating mobile medical and water quality system solutions. This position bridges customer requirements and final sales contracts, ensuring proposals are technically feasible, accurate, and aligned with customer needs.

This is a highly independent, results-driven position requiring exceptional initiative, accountability, and problem-solving abilities. The successful candidate will proactively identify business needs, independently manage priorities, actively pursue solutions, and consistently deliver high-quality results with minimal supervision.

The Project Design Engineer collaborates across departments and utilizes Salesforce to support accurate forecasting, pipeline management, and seamless project transitions.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical field.
• Experience: 3+ years of experience in Sales Engineering, Medical Equipment Planning, or Technical Sales.

· Technical Literacy: Ability to read and accurately interpret architectural blueprints, mechanical site plans, P&IDs, and electrical/logic schematics.

· MEP & Infrastructure Knowledge: Broad familiarity with facility infrastructure and common building standards (NEC, plumbing, fire codes). An understanding of the practical challenges of connecting complex equipment to existing hospital utility systems is strongly desired.

· Systems & Controls: Working knowledge of mechanical control mechanisms (valves, gauges, sensors) and custom digital monitoring systems (basic sensor configuration and signal processing). Expert-level is not required, but a strong, multi-disciplinary technical aptitude is essential.

· Specialized Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with AAMI/ASHRAE/FGI guidelines or Sterile Processing (SPD) workflows is highly preferred. A foundational understanding of water purification technologies is a strong plus.

· Stakeholder Interfacing: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to collaborate and troubleshoot with a wide variety of professionals—including hospital facility maintenance, SPD service technicians, architects, electricians, and plumbers.

· Software Proficiency:

CRM: Experience working collaboratively within Salesforce to manage technical data.

CAD: Proficiency in AutoCAD LT for 2D floor plan layouts.

General: Strong command of Microsoft Office (Excel/Word).

• Self-Motivation & Initiative: Demonstrated ability to independently establish priorities, identify opportunities for improvement, and take action without continuous direction.
• Results Orientation: Strong sense of urgency, commitment to achieving objectives, and ability to overcome challenges while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Proactive Problem-Solving: Ability to anticipate challenges, independently evaluate options, and implement practical, effective solutions.
• Ownership & Accountability: Demonstrated responsibility for assigned projects, consistent follow-through on commitments, and proactive communication of progress and potential obstacles

Essential Job Functions:

• Proposal Development: Proactively drive technical sales proposals by independently defining scope, identifying required inputs, aggressively pursuing missing information, and verifying equipment configurations prior to contract generation.
• Collaborative CRM Management: Take initiative in partnering with Sales Representatives to maintain accurate Salesforce opportunity data. Proactively resolve gaps in technical configurations, scoping notes, and product details to support reliable forecasting and pipeline reporting.
• Technical Scoping & Layouts: Independently create preliminary 2D site layouts and room plans using AutoCAD LT, proactively identifying potential fit or workflow challenges and recommending practical solutions for customer approval.
• Project Transition: Take ownership of the technical handoff of won projects to Project Management, Engineering, and Service teams. Proactively coordinate information and clarify the sold solution to prevent scope creep during execution.
• Technical Sales Support: Actively serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) during customer presentations and video calls, confidently address engineering-related questio…