Product Design & HRI Engineer, Robotics Hardware

Field AI is transforming how robots interact with the real world. We are building risk-aware, reliable, and field-ready AI systems that address the most complex challenges in robotics, unlocking the full potential of embodied intelligence. We go beyond typical data-driven approaches or pure transformer-based architectures, and are charting a new course, with already-globally-deployed solutions delivering real-world results and rapidly improving models through real-field applications.

In this role you will develop hardware that shapes how our robotic systems look, feel, and sound. This spans audio and visual systems, industrial design, and robotic expressiveness and motion. Within audio and visual systems, you will select and integrate displays, speakers, and microphones. Within industrial design, you will work on form and CMF (color, material, finish). You will also help define robot motion and expressiveness. As part of the Hardware department this role will involve significant hands-on work bringing up and designing electromechanical elements. 

You will coordinate with Product and UI/UX to identify what interactions and experiences are needed. Then work with Electrical, Mechanical, and Computing hardware personnel to implement them.  Solutions must balance performance, durability, manufacturability, and SWaP (size, weight, power) constraints across environments ranging from rugged industrial sites to commercial settings with the general public.

• Advanced Industrial Design: Experience owning industrial design end-to-end, including concept sketching, CMF systems, and prototyping, for consumer robotics or wearable hardware.

• User Research: Experience running or supporting user studies on preferences, such as eye or face design options for expressive robots.

• Animation & Expression: Experience with animation tools (Blender, Maya) or behavior/emotion libraries for expressive, character-driven robot design.

• Functional Safety & Compliance: Familiarity with functional safety (SIL) and regulatory compliance (CE, FCC, UL) for audio-visual hardware.

• Scaling: Experience taking audio-visual hardware from prototype to volume manufacturing with contract manufacturers (CM) and DFM/DFA practices.