Lead Concept Industrial Designer — Next-Gen Robotics

Amazon; Factoria (WA); On-site; USD 145,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Lead Concept Industrial Designer to translate the Design Director’s aesthetic vision into the form language and unified physical identity of our next-generation robotic platforms.

You will own early ideation, volumetric packaging, and proportional development, moving quickly to explore, iterate, and define the robots’ look before handing off to technical surfacing. This role collaborates with Mechanical Engineering, Motion/Robotics, and Hardware leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Design/Innovation, research & development, manufacturing, process, industrial engineering, or related experience.
• Experience directly working with engineering teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or related field.
• Expert-level proficiency in Gravity Sketch, Rhino, Vizcom Ai, SubD modeling, Blender, Plasticity, or Alias Concept with demonstrated ability to sculpt balanced forms in days, not weeks.
• Portfolio demonstrating exceptional sense of proportion, visual hierarchy, and unified aesthetic across multi-component devices.
• Intuitive grasp of dynamic kinematic clearances, packaging volumes for motors/electronics, and thermal management considerations
• Proven ability to maintain clean layer organization, logical parting line intent, and deliver clean STEP/mesh files ready for downstream technical surfacing

Responsibilities

• Rapid 3D Form & Volume Exploration: rough out and iterate on robotic enclosures and chassis using key design tools.
• Unified Architecture: establish cohesive visual language across the robot with proportional transitions.
• Dynamic Articulation & Clearances: resolve how panels interact and clear motion ranges.
• Design-to-Surfacing Handshake: deliver organized concept CAD envelopes with design intent to surface designers.
• Cross-Functional Synthesis: collaborate with engineering to wrap components into an appealing envelope.

Skills

Design intuition

Collaboration with engineering

Visual communication

Proportion and form development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design

Master’s degree in Industrial Design

Tools

Gravity Sketch

Rhino

Vizcom Ai

SubD modeling

Blender

Alias Concept

ZBrush

Job description

Amazon seeks a Lead Concept Industrial Designer to translate the Design Director’s aesthetic vision into the form language and unified physical identity of our next-generation robotic platforms.

You will own early ideation, volumetric packaging, and proportional development, moving quickly to explore, iterate, and define the robots’ look before handing off to technical surfacing. This role collaborates with Mechanical Engineering, Motion/Robotics, and Hardware leadership.