Industrial Designer — Physical UX for Platform 2

leManoosh; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking an Industrial Designer to shape the physical user experience of Platform 2, turning complex constraints into understandable products. You will own design decisions from research through prototypes and detailed, manufacturable design, helping teams decide what to build and accelerating deployment.

You will interact with engineering, manufacturing, and product teams to integrate mechanical, material, and deployment constraints, delivering platform updates for real-world use.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating shipped or well-developed physical products and clear design reasoning.
• Strong three-dimensional design skills across form, layout, physical interfaces, and user interaction with CAD/rendering fluency.
• Experience designing for people with different needs and capabilities, with awareness of accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Own the physical design and UX for Platform 2 updates or new system elements, including form, layout, packaging, and mechanisms.
• Research customer and operator needs through observation, interviews, prototyping, and testing; translate findings into design decisions.
• Explore ambiguous problems, identify top risks, and define practical experiments or next steps.
• Communicate concepts through sketches, physical mockups, CAD, renderings, and narratives for cross-functional decisions.
• Partner with engineering, software, manufacturing, operations, and product teams to integrate constraints.
• Drive designs from early learning to manufacturable platform releases with thoughtful scope decisions.

Skills

Portfolio

3D design

Inclusive design

Judgment in ambiguity

Mechanical systems

Prototyping

Tools

CAD

Rendering

Job description

Zipline is seeking an Industrial Designer to shape the physical user experience of Platform 2, turning complex constraints into understandable products. You will own design decisions from research through prototypes and detailed, manufacturable design, helping teams decide what to build and accelerating deployment.

You will interact with engineering, manufacturing, and product teams to integrate mechanical, material, and deployment constraints, delivering platform updates for real-world use.