Senior Product Designer

Gecko Robotics; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Gecko Robotics is seeking a senior product designer for manufacturing and defense work. The role sits around the data layer created by field robots: inspection evidence, asset condition, operational risk, and the interfaces that help industrial teams act on that information.

This is not a cute robot UI job. It is a serious systems-design role where the user may be an engineer, maintenance leader, plant operator, or defense customer trying to make decisions from hard-won inspection data.

Qualifications

• Senior product designer with experience in complex technical or enterprise products.
• Ability to design around dense data, operational workflows, and multi-stakeholder decisions.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, and customer-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape product workflows for manufacturing and defense customers using robot-collected data.
• Turn complex inspection findings into usable interfaces for planning and decision-making.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and field teams to move data from site work into software.

Skills

Senior product design

Complex data handling

Cross-functional teamwork

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

What the role actually is

Gecko Robotics is hiring a senior product designer for manufacturing and defense work. The role sits around the data layer created by field robots: inspection evidence, asset condition, operational risk, and the interfaces that help industrial teams act on that information.

This is not a cute robot UI job. It is a serious systems-design role where the user may be an engineer, maintenance leader, plant operator, or defense customer trying to make decisions from hard-won inspection data.

What you would work on

• Shape product workflows for manufacturing and defense customers using robot-collected infrastructure data
• Turn complex inspection findings into usable interfaces for planning, triage, and decision-making
• Work with product, engineering, and field teams to understand how robotic inspection data moves from site work into software
• Build design patterns that can support high-consequence operational environments

What they are asking for

• Senior product design experience in complex technical or enterprise products
• Comfort designing around dense data, operational workflows, and multi-stakeholder decisions
• Ability to collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and customer-facing teams
• Interest in industrial, manufacturing, defense, or infrastructure contexts

Why this one is worth a look

Gecko is a useful reminder that the robot is often only the first part of the product. The value comes when inspection data becomes something a plant, shipyard, or asset owner can trust enough to act on. For designers, that makes the role less about robot controls and more about making physical-world evidence legible inside an organization.