Product Design - Tools

Therobotage; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is seeking a product designer to work across tooling and HMI for fleet, mission-control, and vehicle-management systems. The role spans operational tooling and vehicle-adjacent interfaces to create a coherent software layer enabling teams to build and ship quickly.

You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to validate designs across tools, own design challenges, and drive fast release cycles with strong visual and interaction design.

Qualifications

• Experience in product, tools, or interaction design across enterprise, commercial, or consumer products.
• Strong visual and interaction design skills.
• Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous technical design problems.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment.
• Interest in real-time systems, defense, space, or robotics contexts.

Responsibilities

• Lead design for fleet management, mission-control, and vehicle-management software.
• Shape OTA update flows and internal workbench tooling for vehicle operating systems.
• Move between defense, commercial, and trucking use cases where design problems overlap.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to validate designs across tools and interfaces.
• Ship product surfaces in fast release cycles with significant design ownership.

Skills

Product design

Tools design

Interaction design

Visual design

Independent work

Job description

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring a product designer to work across tools and HMI for fleet, mission-control, and vehicle-management systems. The role is part of the design team but sits close to a strategically important new project.

The listing points toward a designer who can move between operational tooling and vehicle-adjacent interfaces. It is less about a single polished app and more about making the software layer around autonomous systems coherent enough for teams to use and ship quickly.

What you would work on

• Lead design for fleet management, mission-control systems, and vehicle-management software
• Shape OTA update flows and internal workbench tooling for vehicle operating systems
• Move between defense, commercial, and trucking use cases where the design problems overlap
• Collaborate with product managers and engineers to validate designs across tools and interfaces
• Ship product surfaces in fast release cycles with significant design ownership

What they are asking for

• Product, tools, or interaction design experience across enterprise, commercial, or consumer products
• Strong visual and interaction design skills
• Comfort taking ownership of ambiguous technical design problems
• Ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment
• Interest in real-time systems, defense, space, or robotics contexts

Why this one is worth a look

Tooling is where a lot of autonomy work either becomes usable or stays trapped inside expert teams. This role is interesting because it sits on the operating layer: fleets, updates, mission control, and the workbench software that lets machines move from demo to deployment.