Senior Industrial Designer

Career Genie, Inc

Portugal

On-site

EUR 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with relocation premium

Equity in company growth

Health insurance and housing assistance

Access to robot fleet and assembly line

Structured progression opportunities

Job summary

Career Genie, Inc is seeking a Senior Industrial/Product Designer to shape the design of the Ardia robots in Caniçal, Madeira. This founding role offers the opportunity to design robot exteriors, ensuring functionality and manufacturability as production ramps up.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in industrial design, a strong portfolio of real products, and the ability to work closely with engineers to translate ideas into tangible designs. Competitive salary and benefits, including relocation assistance, are provided.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience as a senior industrial/product designer.
Strong portfolio showcasing physical products, not just renders.
Experience in robotics, automotive, consumer hardware, or medical devices.

Responsibilities

Own the industrial/product design of robot exteriors.
Translate engineering constraints into manufacturable forms.
Collaborate with engineers on design for manufacturability.
Define materials, finishes, and colors for production.
Set human-interaction details for the robots.

Skills

Senior industrial design proficiency

Portfolio of shipped products

Comfort with CAD and craft-level design

Familiarity with manufacturing constraints

Job description

Take on a founding design role shaping the physical identity of a European robotics program from the ground up.
Work on real robots, real production systems, and a platform designed to power intelligent autonomy across industries.
Join a deeply cross-functional environment where industrial design has direct influence on hardware, usability, and brand expression.
Build products at the point where AI, robotics, and manufacturing come together in the real world.
Be part of a team with ambitious technical goals, meaningful ownership, and the opportunity to leave a visible mark on the future of robotics.

ABOUT DATAMENTORS

Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural-language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come.

ROLE OVERVIEW

Design how Ardia robots look and move on the outside — body, posture, finish and on-robot interaction. You sit between industrial design and mechanical engineering, owning the visual and ergonomic language of our quadruped, mobile and humanoid platforms as the Madeira factory ramps from prototype to first units.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own the industrial / product design of the robot exteriors across all three lines (quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid)
Translate engineering constraints into clean, manufacturable, recognisable forms
Work hand-in-hand with the Mechatronic Engineer and Head of Manufacturing on DFM
Define materials, finishes and colourways for the assembly line
Set the on-robot human-interaction details (lights, screens, sound, posture)

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

5+ years as a senior industrial / product designer (robotics, automotive, consumer hardware or medical device)
Strong portfolio of shipped physical products — not just renders
Comfortable with both CAD-style fidelity and craft-level industrial design
Familiarity with low-volume / high-mix manufacturing constraints

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