Industrial Designer, Robotics

Roles & Responsibilities

Our client is a Singapore-based applied R&D lab building an open-source humanoid robot platform and the full software stack behind it. This role owns the form language and physical identity of the robot and its wider hardware family — enclosures, surface treatment, ergonomics, CMF (color, material, finish) and packaging — translating that vision into parts that actually manufacture, assemble and hold up in the real world.

What You'll Do

• Own industrial design across the hardware family: form, proportion, ergonomics and CMF, from concept through production-ready enclosures and structural aesthetics
• Turn mechanical and electrical constraints into clean, intentional design that doesn't hide the engineering
• Prototype fast in foam, print and machined parts, then iterate directly on real hardware to test design intent
• Own the CMF specification process — material selection, surface finish standards, color systems and supplier engagement
• Own design for manufacturing and assembly alongside mechanical engineering: DFM reviews, tolerance stack-ups, fastening, serviceability and assembly sequencing
• Design human-facing details — grips, handles, access panels, indicators and anything a person touches or reads
• Shape the packaging, unboxing experience and user-facing documentation for hardware kits and dev units
• Maintain design consistency across the hardware product family as it expands

Core Key Skills

• 4+ years shipping physical products — consumer electronics, robotics, medical devices, or similarly complex hardware
• Strong portfolio of shipped physical products, ideally complex electromechanical hardware
• Deep industrial design fundamentals: form, proportion, ergonomics and CMF
• Strong proficiency in 3D modeling/surfacing (Alias, Rhino, SolidWorks or equivalent) and rendering (KeyShot or similar)
• Real DFM/DFA experience and working knowledge of manufacturing processes: injection molding, sheet metal, die casting, surface finishing
• Experience working directly with mechanical engineers and contract manufacturers in a fast, iterative environment
• Comfort moving from sketch to prototype to production without needing a large team around you

Nice to Have

• Experience designing for humanoid/legged robots, cobots, or other electromechanical systems
• Experience taking a product from zero to first production run
• Hands-on shop skills: 3D printing, machining, moldmaking and finishing
• Interest in open-source hardware communities

Tell employers what skills you have

DFM
Reading
Maintenance of Electrical Equipment
Hardware Design
Packaging Design
Panel management
Engineering Design
Sensors
Windows Forms
Ergonomics
Hardware Development
Printing Machines
Color Management
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
Enclosure Design
Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing