Senior Specialist - Sports Engineer

In short

Join On's Innovation team as a Senior Specialist - Sports Engineering. You will drive cutting-edge advancements in sports performance by merging deep scientific understanding with advanced engineering principles. This role is centered on developing revolutionary bottom unit systems through CAE and emerging technologies. You'll be pivotal in translating scientific insights into groundbreaking product innovations, pushing the boundaries of athletic performance.

Your Mission

Your mission is to safeguard consistency, performance and steady innovation of the company's proprietary bottom unit technologies across the performance product portfolio. By using your interdisciplinary engineering know-how you come up with new concepts to break performance boundaries and unleash new running experiences. In this role, you will move beyond physical prototyping by creating high-fidelity Finite Element Models that simulate the complex interaction between the human foot, the footwear, and the surface. Your mission is to use physics-based insights to optimize athletic performance, enhance running experience, and accelerate the product-to-market timeline. As we interpret innovation as an horizontal approach you will support cross functionally and provide engineering expertise throughout the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to market launch.

Your story

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical engineering or Sports engineering
• 5+ years of footwear-specific experience and proven experience with footwear innovation projects.
• Proven experience running non-linear FEA (Explicit/Implicit) to analyze high-velocity impacts, energy return, and cushioning performance.
• Proven experience creating 3D digital twins of the human foot to simulate realistic soft-tissue deformation and pressure distribution.
• Deep understanding of polymer science and compound mechanics to develop digital material cards for hyperelastic foams, rubbers, and viscoelastic polymers using experimental test data.
• Mastery in Radioss/Abaqus/Hypermesh for finite element analysis.
• Proficiency in NX/Solidworks/Rhino for generative design.
• Ability to script in Python or Matlab to automate simulation workflows.
• Expertise in statistical analysis.
• Integrate machine learning in predictive modeling.
• Ability to identify design issues and offer solutions to improve functionality and manufacturability of products.
• Ability to work independently under a deadline on several projects simultaneously requiring both innovative ideas and engineering problem-solving.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort adapting communication style between engineers.
• Availability to travel up to 15% of the time.

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.