Lead Concept Industrial Designer

We are seeking a visionary 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 2D/3D ideation, volumetric packaging, and proportional development—working at high velocity to explore, iterate, and define what our robots look and feel like before handing off to technical surfacing.

Responsibilities

• Rapid 3D Form & Volume Exploration: quickly rough out, test, and iterate on complex multi‑part robotic enclosures, articulating fairings, and structural chassis using Rhino, SubD, Alias Concept, or Blender.
• Unified Architecture: establish a cohesive visual brand language across the entire robot, ensuring seamless aesthetic and proportional transitions between moving parts.
• Dynamic Articulation & Clearances: explore and resolve how physical panels interact, reveal internal mechanisms, and clear dynamic ranges of motion.
• Design‑to‑Surfacing Handshake: deliver organized, proportion‑locked concept CAD envelopes (SubD / clean NURBS) with clear design intent, character lines, and highlight priorities to the Technical Surface Designer.
• Cross‑Functional Synthesis: collaborate closely with Mechanical Engineering, Motion/Robotics, and Hardware leadership to wrap high‑density motor packs, cooling ducts, battery modules, and sensor arrays into an appealing, functional envelope.

Basic 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 a 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Industrial Design, Transportation Design, or equivalent advanced study.
• Experience in consumer robotics (e.g., Boston Dynamics, DJI, Skydio), high‑end powersports/motorcycle studios (e.g., CanAm, Yamaha, Honda R&D, Zero), or automotive concept styling.
• Proficiency in generative design tools (Grasshopper/Rhino) and digital sculpting (ZBrush) for organic/biological form references.
• Basic understanding of die‑cast and composite manufacturing (DFM) realities to keep concept forms grounded in producibility.
• Ability to articulate specific highlight curves, curvature expectations, and surface‑quality intent to technical modelers.
• Experience designing for kinematic/articulating systems where covers, cowlings, and fairings move without visual or physical interference.
• Background in premium CMF (Color, Material, Finish) development and hardware interaction design.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription).
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with optional supplemental life plans.
• Employee Assistance Program and mental‑health support.
• Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off.
• Parental leave.
• Comprehensive benefits package including additional wellness and financial programs.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $145,200 – $196,500 USD annually (locations: N. Reading, MA and Bellevue, WA). The total compensation package includes sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs), with final amounts determined by experience, qualifications, and location.