Mechanical Design Engineer - Active with Kids

Bring your life

Are you passionate about developing products where safety, engineering excellence, and user experience come together? Are you excited about developing innovative, safe, and functional solutions for families who love outdoor adventures? If you're driven by the challenge of designing products that combine cutting-edge technology with the highest standards of safety and comfort for children, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

As part of our Active with Kids category, you'll contribute to solutions that combine thoughtful design, engineering excellence, and industry-leading safety. With an exciting product portfolio and roadmap ahead, you'll help to shape the next generation of strollers that make adventures with kids safer, easier, and more enjoyable.

What you'll do at Thule

As a Mechanical Design Engineer - Active with Kids, you'll be part of our committed engineering team specifically developing strollers. Together, we take ideas from concept to finished product through a structured and collaborative development process.

In this role, you will design and develop components in CAD, create high-quality technical specifications, and collaborate closely with engineering colleagues, project managers, simulation and test engineers, and prototype specialists to solve technical challenges and ensure every detail meets the high standards and requirements.

You will take an active role in ordering and evaluating prototypes, analyzing test results, and using simulations to verify the strength and performance of your designs.

In addition, you will document technical solutions, manage design-related risks, and contribute to engineering best practices. Leading and supporting design reviews will be an important part of your role, helping ensure our products meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and sustainability.

What you bring

To succeed in this role, we believe you have a university degree in Mechanical Engineering or a related field, combined with some years of experience in mechanical design and product development.

You have worked with a variety of materials and understand how to optimize designs for functionality, durability, and safety. Experience from consumer products, the automotive industry, or other safety-critical applications is highly valuable. You have experience working with plastic components and understand their manufacturing processes. You are fluent in both Swedish and English.

As the role includes practical elements, we believe you thrive in a hands-on product development environment. As a person, you are self-driven, structured, and solution-oriented, with the ability to turn ideas into robust and well-engineered products. You are a team player who enjoys collaborating across disciplines and can effectively manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

Why you should join Thule

At Thule, we are Proud to Be Thule. We believe anything is possible when we stay curious, take initiative and challenge ourselves. We encourage everyone to take ownership and make the most of their part of the business.

We believe we win as a team by collaborating across functions, sharing knowledge and supporting one another. United by our passion for our products, the outdoors and the Thule brand, we take pride in what we do and create a culture where everyone contributes, grows and has fun.

Hiring Process

Apply by submitting your application and resumé through “Apply for position” on our Thule Career Site. The application deadline is December 6, 2026.

Please make sure to not wait to show your interest until the last application date as interviews are held continuously during the process, and the position might be filled before the last application date. Please also note that we do not accept applications by e-mail.

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to contact our Talent Acquisition Partner, Oscar Persson, at [email protected]

We look forward to hearing from you!