Hardware Product Designer: Shape a Real-World Humanoid Robot

Menlo Research; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Menlo Research in San Francisco is seeking a Hardware Product Designer to own the physical form of Asimov. You will shape how the robot looks, feels, and reads to people around it, translating that vision into production-ready enclosures, covers, and structural aesthetics.

This is design that ships to real hardware, not renders. You will prototype fast, iterate with mechanical and electrical teams, and drive manufacturing decisions to ensure buildability and field durability.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio of shipped physical products, ideally complex electromechanical hardware.
• Deep industrial design fundamentals: form, proportion, ergonomics, and CMF.
• Fluency in CAD and surfacing, plus real DFM and DFA experience.
• Comfort moving from sketch to prototype to production without needing a large team around you.
• A bias for building, testing on hardware, and iterating quickly.
• Judgment about when to obsess over a detail and when to ship.

Responsibilities

• Own industrial design for Asimov, from concept and form language to production-ready enclosures, covers, and structural aesthetics
• Turn mechanical and electrical constraints into clean, intentional physical design without hiding the engineering
• Drive CMF decisions across the platform: color, material, finish, texture, and how they hold up in the field
• Prototype fast in foam, print, and machined parts, then iterate on real robots
• Work shoulder to shoulder with mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing to keep designs buildable and repeatable
• Own design for manufacturing and assembly, including tolerances, fastening, serviceability, and part count
• Design the human-facing details: grips, handles, access panels, indicators, and anything a person touches or reads

Skills

Industrial design

CAD

DFM

Prototype

Team collaboration

Tools

CAD software

Job description

Menlo Research in San Francisco is seeking a Hardware Product Designer to own the physical form of Asimov. You will shape how the robot looks, feels, and reads to people around it, translating that vision into production-ready enclosures, covers, and structural aesthetics.

This is design that ships to real hardware, not renders. You will prototype fast, iterate with mechanical and electrical teams, and drive manufacturing decisions to ensure buildability and field durability.