Design Engineer (Bicycle Tires)

Design Engineer – Bicycle Tires

ENVE Composites | Ogden, Utah

Are you an engineer who gets excited about the science behind what makes a tire fast, predictable, durable, and confidence-inspiring? At ENVE, we're looking for an experienced Product Design Engineer – Bicycle Tires to help shape the future of our high-performance tire portfolio across road, gravel, and mountain bike applications. This isn't a role where you'll simply maintain existing products or execute someone else's designs. We're looking for someone who can help lead our tire development strategy and own the product development process—from initial concept and tread design through compounds, casing construction, prototype testing, validation, and commercialization. You'll work alongside passionate cyclists, engineers, product experts, testers, suppliers, and commercial teams with one objective: develop tires that set new benchmarks for performance.

ENVE Composites, based in Ogden, Utah, is a leading manufacturer of premium carbon fiber bicycle components and bikes. Since 2007, we've been driven by innovation, precision, and a passion for creating world-class cycling products. Our team is made up of dedicated people who take pride in what they create and support one another in a collaborative environment.

What you’ll do…

This role combines engineering, material science, testing, and hands-on product development. You'll help establish ENVE's tire development pipeline and lifecycle strategy while turning performance objectives into products riders can experience on the road and trail.

You'll be responsible for:

• Developing new tread patterns for road racing, endurance, gravel, XC, trail, and enduro applications.
• Selecting, evaluating, and specifying rubber compounds to achieve targeted performance characteristics.
• Engineering casing constructions, including ply materials, angles, reinforcements, and bead designs.
• Creating and maintaining detailed CAD models, technical drawings, and engineering specifications.
• Developing prototype build plans and comprehensive lab, track, and field-testing protocols.
• Analyzing test data and translating results into meaningful design improvements.
• Collaborating with suppliers on materials, tooling, manufacturing processes, and production readiness.
• Supporting product launch through quality standards, specifications, and manufacturing documentation.
• Staying connected to advances in tire technology, material science, competitive products, and rider needs.

Ultimately, you'll be balancing the characteristics that make tire engineering so challenging—and so interesting: rolling resistance, grip, durability, puncture protection, weight, compliance, and ride quality.

This role is probably a great fit if you...

• Love understanding why a product performs the way it does—not simply whether it passes a test.
• Have hands-on experience developing tires, rubber products, or other high-performance materials.
• Understand how tread patterns, rubber compounds, casing construction, and materials interact to influence performance.
• Enjoy moving between CAD, test data, prototypes, suppliers, manufacturing, and real-world product testing.
• Are comfortable challenging assumptions and iterating until the product meets the performance target.
• Can turn test results and rider feedback into thoughtful engineering decisions.
• Enjoy working cross-functionally and can communicate effectively with engineers, product teams, suppliers, manufacturing teams, and riders.
• Want meaningful ownership of a product from concept through production.
• Are energized by the opportunity to help build something exceptional rather than simply maintain what's already been created.

What Success Looks Like

As you grow into the role, you'll help ENVE:

• Establish a disciplined, rolling tire development pipeline and lifecycle strategy.
• Develop high-performance tires across road, gravel, and mountain bike categories.
• Create measurable performance targets and robust validation methods for new tire designs.
• Advance our understanding and application of tread design, compounds, casing construction, and tire mechanics.
• Strengthen collaboration with manufacturing and material suppliers.
• Translate lab, track, and real-world testing into faster and more effective design iterations.
• Build the engineering knowledge, specifications, testing standards, and documentation needed to support a world-class tire portfolio.
• Deliver products that riders can genuinely feel perform differently.
• This is an opportunity to have significant influence over the next generation of ENVE tires. We're looking for someone who combines technical depth with curiosity, disciplined testing, strong engineering judgment, and the desire to create products that perform at the highest level.