Senior Molding and Tooling Engineer

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, you’ll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do the best work of their lives.The Molding and Tooling Engineer is responsible for the delivery and validation of lead molding processing development and fabrication tooling designs for new product developments and secondary operations.  You will work with Mechanical Engineers, Supply Chain Management and Supply Quality Engineers to identify supply base vendors, fabrication technologies and create tooling designs to deliver high volume, high value consumer products with demanding cosmetic requirements. Using your extensive experience, you will investigate and implement industry best practices in molding process, tool design, construction and validation across a range of material and process requirements including plastic molding, metal part fabrication and decorative processes.  You will directly manage the tool design, development and qualification of molding and tooling designs required to deliver new product designs and support manufacturing capacity.What You'll DoRecommend material choices that meet mechanical, CMF (Color/Materials/Finish), Industrial Design and Operations requirements. Collaborate with Product Design, Industrial Design, and Mechanical Process Engineering teams to support product development.  Experience with setting up, running and troubleshooting injection molding machines preferred.  Ability to establish injection molding process window and cycle times. Provide feedback to all teams on part and manufacturing concerns with design requirements. Drive analytical modeling and analysis of tooling concepts and design through use of Plastic Flow simulation tools to provide upfront design feedback (Moldflow or MoldEx3D). Create DFM (Design for Manufacturing) documents that include gating, parting lines, ejection locations, actions, thin steel conditions, design considerations to be provided to Mechanical engineers and suppliers. Work directly with Quality organization to provide feedback on dimensional information,  FAI, Cp and Cpk. Visit suppliers for onsite tool and part processing reviews, audit suppliers for plastic and metal parts and evaluate their capabilities, explore new manufacturing processes and materials and help standardize tooling practices and process controls across SONOS supplier base. Manage multiple development programs at once.  Provide feedback into program schedules and risks. Provide feedback to the GSM team on tool prices, lead times, production cycle times, tool cavitation and expected yields. Mentor and develop mechanical engineers and junior tooling engineers in the area of plastic material selection and part design.What You'll NeedResearch shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria. If you don’t have 100% of the skills listed, we strongly encourage you to apply if interested.Basic QualificationsBachelor’s degree in Plastics or Polymer Engineering and Mold/Tool Design, Material Science and Engineering or related field8 years experience in plastics part and tool designWillingness to be office based (Boston) approx. 2 days per week and travel to suppliers in APAC approx. 15%Preferred QualificationsExperience with engineering grade plastic resinsExperience with tight tolerance tooling and resolving out of spec issues.Proficient with GD&T, SPC, DOE and Six Sigma techniquesExperience in plastic molding, metal casting, metal extrusion and metal stamping.Knowledge of plastic processes of 2-shot molding, IMD, IML, and insert molding.Knowledge of secondary processes such as machining and decorating (anodizing, plating, painting).Experience working with suppliers in APAC.Experience with CAD software (Pro/Engineer or Siemens NX solid modeling)We consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, which may cause compensation to vary depending on your skills, experience and qualifications.  This job is also eligible for discretionary bonuses as well as an opportunity to become a Sonos shareholder because all full time employees are eligible for stock grants.  The minimum base pay may be modified in the future based on changing market conditions. The starting minimum base pay for this role is: $128,000We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including open time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and other benefits subject to eligibility requirements. Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.Your profile will be reviewed and you'll hear from us once we have an update. At Sonos we take the time to hire right and appreciate your patience.Notice to U.S. Job Applicants: Sonos is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.Follow the links to review the EEO is the Law poster and its supplement. The pay transparency policy is available here. Sonos is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to accommodations@sonos.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.