Senior Industrial Designer

Career Genie, Inc; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Competitive salary with relocation premium

Equity in company growth

Health insurance and housing assistance

Access to robot fleet and assembly line

Structured progression opportunities

Resumo da oferta

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.

Qualificações

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.

Conhecimentos

Senior industrial design proficiency

Portfolio of shipped products

Comfort with CAD and craft-level design

Familiarity with manufacturing constraints

Descrição da oferta de emprego

• 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

Nice to have

WHY DATAMENTORS

• Competitive salary benchmarked to mainland plus a Madeira relocation premium
• Founding hardware-design role for a European humanoid programme
• Equity / participation in Datamentors growth
• Access to a real robot fleet (Unitree G1, Go2) and an in-house assembly line
• Health insurance, relocation and housing assistance
• Structured progression as the plant scales to 600 units/year