Industrial Designer

present of AI; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Collaborative Robotics (Cobot) in Santa Clara, CA seeks an industrial designer to shape how a mobile AI-driven robot looks, feels, and works with people. You’ll develop form concepts, materials, and human factors, collaborating with hardware engineers on real prototypes to ensure safety and usability in busy spaces.

You’ll explore how AI movement and sensing influence product design, designing for sensors, cameras, and intuitive interactions that build trust with users while balancing aesthetics

Qualifications

• Form development, materials, and human factors are core to the role.
• Comfort working with engineers on real hardware and prototypes.
• Experience in robotics or hardware projects is valuable.

Skills

3D CAD modeling

Prototyping

Robotics projects

Design for safety

Job description

An industrial designer in robotics typically shapes how a robot looks, feels, and works with people. A strong candidate brings skills in form development, materials, and human factors, plus comfort working with engineers on real hardware. At a company building a mobile robot that moves and grasps alongside people, the work likely involves making the machine safe, clear, and easy to be near in busy spaces.

How it fits the AI era

AI changes the design work by speeding up concept sketches, variations, and simple simulations. The human part stays in judging how a robot should move and feel around people, and in making choices that build trust. This role sits where physical form and AI behavior meet, so the designer helps decide what the robot should do and how it should seem.

How it builds AI experience

A designer here would gain hands on experience with how AI driven movement and grasping affect real product design. That includes learning to design for sensors, cameras, and safe motion around people. Building this kind of experience can come from working on any robot or smart device project, or from studying how AI systems behave in the physical world.

Worth showing

• 3D CAD modeling
• Prototyping physical products
• Robotics or hardware projects
• Design for safety

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About Collaborative Robotics (Cobot)

Cobot builds Proxie, a mobile AI-driven robot that moves and grasps material alongside people in hospitals, warehouses and factories, without needing a cage.