Industrial Designer
Pickle Robot
Design
Cambridge, MA, USA
Posted on Oct 18, 2024
About this role:
Pickle Robot Company is seeking a full-time industrial designer to work with our research team to sketch, prototype, and partner with engineering in developing concepts and products for our mobile manipulation robotic platforms. If you're passionate about design and real world success and reliability of robotics, we’d love to have you on board!
What You’ll Accomplish:
- Work with an interdisciplinary team to iterate through product concepts from design to production.
- Conduct simulations, testing, and prototyping to validate designs.
- Create detailed 2D and 3D models, both for immediate product development and future platform concepts, translating abstract ideas into concrete, visually compelling forms.
- Help to shape the visual and form identity of our product lines.
You Are:
- An industrial designer with 3+ years of experience, ideally in robotics or similar industry.
- Bachelors and/or above degree holder in the field industrial design.
- Proficient in CAD and image processing software, such as the Adobe series, Solidworks, Onshape, etc.
- A strong design communicator design expression skills and must provide a portfolio of past design works.
- A creative thinker, empathetic, user perceptive, and have strong analytical abilities.
- An excellent communicator and collaborator.
- A self-starter who is enthusiastic and thoughtful.
- Ready for a full-time position that requires a small amount of domestic travel.
- Willing and able to work from our Cambridge, MA office at least three days per week.
Why You Belong at Pickle:
Want to get in on the ground floor of a fast-growing, VC-backed robotics company? Join Pickle Robot! We build systems that companies and their teams love.
Pickle robots unload trucks. Every day, millions of trucks and containers are loaded and unloaded, often requiring manual labor—tough, dirty, dangerous, and hard to staff. Pickle automates this process using AI, machine learning, and robotics to deliver reliable products. Our Unload Systems work with teams on loading docks to make the job safer, faster, and more efficient.
Pickle provides best-in-class benefits including health, dental, & vision insurance; unlimited vacation, along with all federal and state holidays; 401K contributions of 5% your salary, travel supplies, and other items to make your working life more fun, comfortable, and productive.