Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the visual identity, form language, and design principles of robotic products and supporting hardware systems.
• Create sketches, renderings, digital concepts, and physical prototypes to communicate design intent and explore new product directions.
• Develop production-intent surface geometry and digital assets that can be integrated directly into engineering CAD workflows.
• Partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership teams to translate product goals into compelling physical designs.
• Drive industrial design decisions across the product development lifecycle, balancing aesthetics, functionality, manufacturability, and system constraints.
• Collaborate with mechanical engineers to ensure design intent is preserved throughout development and manufacturing.
• Conduct design reviews and provide feedback on proportion, surface quality, form, fit-and-finish, and overall product experience.
• Support rapid concept exploration and iteration through physical and digital prototyping.
• Establish and maintain design standards, workflows, and best practices for industrial design and surface development.
• Help define the long-term design vision for future robotic products and hardware platforms.

Requirements

• Exceptional taste and strong intuition for proportion, form, surface quality, and physical product design.
• Ability to collaborate closely with engineers and comfortably navigate both design and technical constraints.
• Capability to move from ambiguous product concepts to detailed, production-ready design assets.
• Systematic thinking about how design choices influence usability, manufacturability, and product perception.
• Extensive experience designing consumer electronics, robotics products, transportation products, advanced hardware systems, or other highly refined physical products.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating excellence in industrial design, form development, visual storytelling, and physical product execution.
• Experience creating CAD geometry, Class A surfaces, or production-intent digital assets that can be directly consumed by engineering teams.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and surface development tools such as Alias, NX, Rhino, Blender, Gravity Sketch, or equivalent.
• Experience working closely with hardware engineering teams from concept development through manufacturing.