Industrial Designer

What the role actually is

Applied Intuition is hiring its first industrial designer for a design team serving highly technical autonomy users. The role translates hardware and software constraints into physical concepts, prototypes, CAD, CMF direction, and design documentation.

This is a human-factors-heavy design role for someone comfortable working with engineers, product managers, and business teams on complex autonomous-machine workflows.

• Develop design themes for hardware concepts from sketch through prototype and production intent
• Build and iterate physical prototypes that inform product architecture
• Create sketches, CAD, CMF strategy, prototypes, and documentation to communicate design intent
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business development on technical product problems
• Work inside Applied's fast release cadence while handling incomplete or fragmented inputs

• Industrial design experience in fast-moving technical environments
• Strong human factors judgment for products shaped by engineering constraints
• Ability to prototype hardware concepts for software-driven products
• Background in HCI, industrial design, or a related design field
• Robotics, drone, or startup experience is called out as useful

Industrial design roles in autonomy companies can be rare, especially when they are the first seat on the team. This one is about making complex physical AI systems understandable and usable, not just making hardware look polished.