Senior Industrial Designer

Amazon Robotics; North Reading (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Robotics is seeking a senior industrial designer to translate robotic system requirements into physical and experiential design decisions. The role spans concepts, implementation, detailed design documentation, vendor collaboration, and design standards for industrial automation.

This is a product design role focusing on how people encounter robotic systems, workstations, components, motion, scale, and safety cues inside operational environments.

Qualifications

• Senior designer with industrial/product design experience.
• Experience with CAD and assembly design practices.
• Portfolio showing robotics or automation context.
• Ability to lead across concepting, prototyping, implementation, and stakeholder review.

Responsibilities

• Lead industrial design projects from concept through implementation.
• Design physical interfaces, workstations, and system touchpoints for robotic automation.
• Build documentation, specifications, and presentations for stakeholder review.
• Use CAD, visualization, VR, AR, or generative AI to evaluate form and interaction.

Skills

Industrial design

Leadership

Systems thinking

UX design

Tools

CAD

Assembly design

Job description

What the role actually is

Amazon Robotics is hiring a senior industrial designer to translate robotic system requirements into physical and experiential design decisions. The role spans concepts, implementation, detailed design documentation, vendor collaboration, and design standards for industrial automation.

This is a product design role in the literal physical sense: the work affects how people encounter robotic systems, workstations, components, motion, scale, and safety cues inside operational environments.

What you would work on

• Lead industrial design projects from concept through implementation
• Design physical interfaces, workstations, and system touchpoints for robotic automation
• Build documentation, specifications, and presentations for stakeholder review
• Use tools such as CAD, visualization, VR, AR, or generative AI to evaluate form and interaction

What they are asking for

• Senior industrial design experience for technical products or industrial systems
• Working knowledge of CAD and advanced assembly design practices
• Experience leading design work across concepting, prototyping, implementation, and stakeholder review
• Portfolio evidence of systems thinking, UX-aware form development, and robotics or automation context

Why this one is worth a look

Industrial design often gets flattened into hardware aesthetics, but robotics makes it operational. This role is about making physical automation more legible, usable, and safe at Amazon's scale, where a design choice becomes part of the work environment.