Industrial Designer (Robotics Focus)

We are hiring an Industrial Designer with strong fundamentals, an eye for detail, and real curiosity about machines that move, sense, and make decisions on their own.

We're a strategy, industrial design, digital design, and product development consulting firm based in San Francisco. For over 25 years we've created successful products and immersive experiences across consumer electronics, housewares, computing, robotics, medical, scientific, and commercial products, for clients including Google, Meta, Uber, Johnson & Johnson, and Tonal.

Robotics and autonomous systems now sit at the center of a growing share of our Physical work. Designing a robot isn't the same problem as designing a device. The form has to make room for actuators, sensors, cabling, and heat. It has to survive contact with the real world. And it has to read as approachable to the person standing next to it, because a machine that looks unpredictable makes people back away from it. We're looking for a designer who finds that constraint stack exciting rather than annoying.

This is a mid-level role for someone with roughly three to six years of professional experience. You'll drive concepts from sketch through refined CAD, work shoulder to shoulder with engineers, and help set the visual language for products nobody has designed before.

What you'll do

  • Develop and refine product concepts through research, sketching, and 3D modeling, shaping designs that meet user needs and project goals.
  • Design robotic and connected hardware where mechanical packaging, sensor placement, and articulation drive the form as much as aesthetics do.
  • Work with mechanical, electrical, and software engineers to define objectives, explore materials, and pull manufacturing considerations forward in the process.
  • Shape how a machine communicates its intent through form, motion, light, and detail, so people understand what it's about to do.
  • Produce accurate CAD models and high-quality renderings that make design intent clear to clients and stakeholders.
  • Iterate on designs using feedback, market insight, and technical requirements to improve function, usability, and appearance.
  • Support prototyping and testing, including 3D prints and physical models, and turn what you learn into the next round.
  • Prepare detailed design documentation and specifications for manufacturing partners.
  • Manage tasks and timelines across multiple projects and deliver quality work on schedule.
  • Keep up with design trends and emerging technology, and bring fresh thinking back to the team.
  • What you'll bring

  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design or a related field.
  • Three to six years of professional industrial design experience.
  • Proficiency in 2D and 3D design tools (Adobe, SolidWorks, Rhino, Keyshot, or equivalents).
  • Strong sketching, rendering, and concept communication skills.
  • Hands-on experience with rapid prototyping methods and tools.
  • Genuine curiosity about materials, manufacturing, and engineering, plus comfort holding your own in technical conversations.
  • A collaborative, adaptable working style in cross-functional teams.
  • Strong communication and presentation abilities.
  • A portfolio showing sketches, renderings, prototypes, and finished products.
  • User-centered problem solving.
  • Current documentation to work in the United States.
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    Nice to have

    • Experience designing robots, autonomous systems, drones, or other complex electromechanical products.
    • Familiarity with sensors, actuators, motion systems, or thermal and structural constraints in tight packages.
    • Work on products used in medical, industrial, lab, or other regulated environments.
    • Experience designing the physical form and behavior of AI-enabled devices.

    If your portfolio doesn't include robots yet but you've designed hard, dense, engineering-driven products, we want to see it.

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