# Industrial Designer

**Company:** [Applied Intuition](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/applied-intuition)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Hardware Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Industrial Design, CAD, Prototyping, Human Factors, Cmf Strategy, Hardware Design, Sketching, Product Architecture
**Posted:** 2026-05-22

> Lead industrial design for hardware products used by autonomous systems engineers. Create concepts, physical prototypes, and production-ready designs with strong focus on human factors and technical constraints.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Develop design themes for hardware concepts from sketch, prototype, to production
- Build and iterate physical prototypes to inform product architecture with human factors in mind
- Work quickly to ship new features in 5 week release cycles
- Create and communicate design intent through sketches, CAD, prototypes, CMF strategy and design documentation
- Collaborate closely with PM, Eng, and BD for highly technical and complex engineering challenges

## Requirements
- 6+ years of Industrial design experience
- Prototyped and developed hardware for software in fast-paced, technical environments
- Keen sense of human factors
- Ability to take complex engineering constraints and make user-friendly and intuitive designs
- Strong ability to hit the ground running with incomplete feature scopes and fragmented information
- Bachelors in Human-Computer Interaction, or related design field

## Nice to Have
- Prior startup experience
- Prior Robotics, Drone, or related experience

## Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: $150,000 - $200,000 USD annually
- Equity in the form of options and/or restricted stock units
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning and wellness stipends
- Paid time off

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