Design Engineer | Range Area Seating - Comfort Platform

Job Description

IKEA of Sweden offers a vibrant and inclusive culture where ideas are heard, everyone has opportunities to develop new skills, and our shared goal is always to create a better everyday life for the many people.

Within Range Area Seating, we are a diverse group of down-to-earth and straightforward colleagues who share a passion for home furnishing. Together, we develop safe and affordable solutions for a more beautiful, playful and convenient life at home.

You will join an engaged and highly skilled team that is curious about how we can make things better and find simple, smart solutions. Our work focuses on comfort and covers beds, mattresses, sofas and other seating products.

The Comfort Platform team develops solutions that reduce costs, improve products and contribute to a better life at home through standardisation, optimisation and the development of new solutions for beds, sofas and mattresses.

About the role

As a Design Engineer in the Comfort Platform team, you will work with current technologies and new materials. Together with colleagues and partners within and beyond the team, you will develop smart, innovative solutions for the IKEA range in a broader context. You will develop new textiles and comfort solutions and help shape the future roadmap. The role includes developing, verifying and documenting solutions, as well as exploring new ways of working, simulation tools and robust verification methods. The ability to deliver, take ownership and collaborate effectively is central to the role.