Principal Product Development Engineers
Bedford, MAJob$170–180K/yrPosted 1 day agoStill listed today
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The Principal Product Development Engineer connects business needs with technology, serving as an interface between Engineering, Product, and Sales. The role evaluates market needs and technical feasibility, refines product requirements, and helps shape technology release plans for products typically 6–18 months before launch. It is hands-on and customer-facing, with 10% annual travel, split evenly between domestic and international travel.
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Job Responsibilities:
The Principal Product Development Engineer is the primary interface and advocate between Engineering and the Product Org and Sales. The position links business needs to technology. This role is hands-on and will have a customer-facing component.
The position typically works on products and features 6-18 months prior to market launch. The Principal Product Development Engineer will evaluate market needs, brainstorm solutions, discover insights and evaluate technical feasibility. This role is collaborative with Engineering Product teams and typically generates content and makes decisions in conjunction with those teams. Specific duties include the following:
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Analyze proposed solutions for effectiveness to address market needs and technical viability;
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Refine high-level product requirements and market goals into actionable units of technology;
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Create, update, and maintain annual technology release plans for products;
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Present new technology internally and to customers to build understanding and elicit feedback;
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Evaluate, summarize, rank, and build consensus on technical options;
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Participate in brainstorming, hack-a-thons, and design reviews; and
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Stay abreast of the latest advancements in warehouse robotics and enabling technology.
Salary: One hundred seventy thousand to one hundred eighty thousand dollars per year.
Travel Requirement: 10% travel required per year. 50% of travel domestic, 50% international.
Education, Experience and Skills Requirements:
Employer requires candidate to have a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math or a closely related field and seven (7) years of progressively more responsible experience in an occupation involving warehouse logistics, automation, or industrial robotics. Alternatively, employer will accept a Master’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math or a closely related field and five (5) years of progressively more responsible work experience in an occupation involving warehouse logistics, automation, or industrial robotics. In addition, the employer requires the following:
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Demonstrated ability with presentations and summaries gained through three (3) years of work experience;
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Demonstrated ability working on teams bringing products to market gained through five (5) years of work experience;
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Demonstrated ability to generate novel and insightful solutions gained through three (3) years of work experience and the publication of one (1) patent;
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Demonstrated knowledge of designing or coding features that went to market gained through three (3) years of work experience;
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Demonstrated knowledge of robotics and mechatronics gained through two (2) years of work experience;
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Demonstrated knowledge of post-launch product support gained through two (2) years of work experience;
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Demonstrated knowledge of Machine Learning, AI, and motion planning gained through two (2) years of work experience; and
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Demonstrated knowledge of Python gained through four (4) years of work experience.
All years of experience may be gained concurrently.
Applicants can send resumes to Berkshire Grey, Inc, 140 South Road, Bedford, MA 01730 (Attn: Req# HR2026-08) or apply online at https://www.berkshiregrey.com/careers/
This position is eligible for Berkshire Grey, Inc.’s Employee Referral Program.
HR2026-08
How this job compares
Set against the 481 open Product Development Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$170–180K/yr
- Massachusetts median$95–143K/yr27 salary ranges
- US median$96–154K/yr272 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $175K, is 47% above the Massachusetts median midpoint ($119K) — in the top quarter of Product Development Engineer salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 35 open Product Development Engineer jobs in Massachusetts and 481 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Re:Build Manufacturing5 open
- VulcanForms3 open
- Berkshire Grey (this employer)2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience — more than three in four Product Development Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 376 postings).
- Education
- 298 of the 481 open Product Development Engineer jobs (62%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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