Industrial Designer, Platform 2 Hardware & UX

Zipline; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Zipline is seeking an Industrial Designer to shape Platform 2’s physical user experience, turning complex constraints into understandable products. You will own design decisions from research to manufacturability, guiding platform updates and new elements for real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, software, manufacturing, and operations to integrate constraints, drive prototyping, and validate manufacturable releases. A hands-on, iterative approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Portfolio demonstrating shipped or well-developed physical products.
• Strong three-dimensional design skills across form, layout, physical interfaces, and user interaction.
• 3+ years of experience designing for people with different needs, backgrounds, capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own the physical design and user experience for Platform 2 updates or new system elements, including form and layout and influence interfaces, packaging, assembly, and mechanisms.
• Research customer and operator needs through observation, interviews, prototyping, and testing; translate findings into design decisions.
• Explore ambiguous problems, identify the largest user, technical, and deployment risks, and define practical experiments or next steps.
• Communicate concepts through sketches, physical mockups, CAD, renderings, and clear narratives that enable cross-functional decisions.
• Partner with engineering, software, manufacturing, operations, and product teams to integrate mechanical, material, assembly, and deployment constraints.
• Drive designs from early learning into validated, manufacturable platform releases; make thoughtful scope decisions that preserve user value and accelerate delivery.

Skills

Portfolio

3D design

Prototyping

Manufacturing awareness

Cross-functional collaboration

Sketching

CAD

Rendering

Tools

CAD

Rendering

Job description

Zipline is seeking an Industrial Designer to shape Platform 2’s physical user experience, turning complex constraints into understandable products. You will own design decisions from research to manufacturability, guiding platform updates and new elements for real-world deployment.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, software, manufacturing, and operations to integrate constraints, drive prototyping, and validate manufacturable releases. A hands-on, iterative approach is essential.