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Job Summary:
TaylorMade Golf Company is seeking an Engineer for Product Development focused on Golf Ball Evaluation. This role involves building and maintaining data infrastructure to support golf ball product development, designing scalable data pipelines, and collaborating with R&D and manufacturing teams to deliver insights and improve testing processes.
Responsibilities:
• Design and execute equipment correlation studies to establish statistically valid transfer functions between measurement instruments
• Develop and maintain gauge R&R (repeatability & reproducibility) protocols to quantify measurement system uncertainty and guide equipment qualification decisions.
• Build regression and calibration models to translate measurements across platforms, ensuring consistency in cross-site and cross-instrument comparisons.
• Flag and investigate measurement drift, anomalies, and data quality issues in an automated fashion.
• Contribute to and implement relational and cloud-based databases to centralize golf ball measurement data
• Design scalable schemas that accommodate new data streams as testing capabilities expand, with clear version control and metadata standards.
• Build ETL pipelines to ingest data into unified data stores.
• Develop and maintain dataflows to provide summarized results to the group.
• Perform exploratory and inferential statistical analysis on golf ball performance datasets to identify trends, anomalies, and performance drivers.
• Develop interactive dashboards and automated reporting tools to surface key metrics to engineers and product teams.
• Analyze player and robot performance data to identify correlations between ball properties and on-course outcomes.
• Write clear technical documentation covering data models, pipeline architecture, correlation methodologies, and analytical findings.
• Present data-driven findings to cross-functional stakeholders including engineering, product Creation, and tour operations teams.
• Develop complete understanding of critical product specs and how they relate to product performance.
• Develop new tests that replicate on-course play and assist team in evaluating new designs.
• Measure and analyze existing ball products and tooling.
• Participate in evaluation of new designs/products.
• Evaluate automation opportunities to improve testing efficiency and operator ergonomics.
• Performs other related duties and assignments as required.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 0 - 2 years of direct experience; sports equipment industry related experience a plus.
• B.S. in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or related degree required.
• Proven experience designing and querying relational databases (SQL); familiarity with database schema design and normalization.
• Experience with data visualization tools to build dashboards and automated reports.
• Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous datasets and define data standards for new measurement programs.
• Strong communication skills: ability to translate technical findings into clear narratives for non-technical audiences.
• Applied knowledge of statistics: regression analysis, hypothesis testing, ANOVA, measurement system analysis (MSA/Gauge R&R), and uncertainty quantification.
• Excellent working knowledge of MATLAB or equivalent engineering analysis software.
• Functional knowledge with larger datasets, creating ETLs.
• Knowledge and some experience in Design of Experiments (DOE). Experience with designing and setting up experiments, various data acquisition methods, statistical analysis and report writing.
• Working knowledge of statistics with application to product evaluation.
• Functional knowledge of CAD software for fixture design.
• Basic knowledge of CAE (FEA, CFD).
• Strong organization skills, able to multi-task effectively.
• Strong communication skills: Must be fluent in English (written and oral), have excellent interpersonal skills; ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization (e.g. marketing, sales, engineering, production, tour players).
• Hands-on lab or machine shop experience. Ability to design and fabricate test fixtures independently.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including, Word, advanced Excel, Outlook.
• Demonstrated technical problem solving/creative thinking ability.
• Demonstrated ability to work in team environment with willingness to question status quo and demonstrate why proposed change offers an improvement.
Preferred:
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Golf knowledge: terminology, products, rules, handicap of <18 preferred.
• Scratch golfer is a plus.
• Knowledge of manufacturing methods of products the employee is involved in designing (e.g. casting, injection molding, machining, compression molding, forging, and coating/plating techniques) a plus.
Company:
Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, TaylorMade Golf is a leading manufacturer of high-performance golf equipment, golf balls, accessories. Founded in 1979, the company is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, US, , with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.