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Senior Industrial Designer

PassiveLogic

PassiveLogic

Design
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Posted on Friday, February 16, 2024
Hardware Engineering · Salt Lake City, UT

Senior Industrial Designer

Are you passionate about pushing design boundaries and reimagining the next generation of design tools?


What you will be doing

As a Senior Industrial Designer, you will be responsible for helping lead and manage the design process for new products, developing and executing design strategies, and ensuring that design projects are delivered on time and within budget.

This position will:

  • Drive the design process from concept through production, ensuring that designs meet user needs, brand standards, and technical specifications. This includes producing the following deliverables: design briefs, research and analyses reports, concept sketches, prototypes, 3D models, renderings, design guidelines and specifications, packaging and labeling design, and support for manufacturing/post-production
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and marketing professionals, to create innovative, functional, and visually appealing designs that meet user needs and business objectives
  • Conduct research and analysis to identify user needs, market trends, and competitive landscapes
  • Create and present design concepts and solutions to internal and external stakeholders, incorporating feedback into the design process
  • Help develop and maintain design guidelines, style guides, and design language systems to ensure brand consistency across all products and platforms
  • Stay up-to-date with emerging design trends, technologies, and techniques, and apply them to design projects as appropriate
  • Manage design timelines, ensuring that projects are delivered on time
About PassiveLogic

PassiveLogic is disrupting the world of automation with the first generalized platform for autonomy. Our first application for autonomy is buildings — the largest and most complex controlled infrastructure in the economy. Our culture is built on bringing together the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives — backed by the world’s leading investors — working collaboratively together to build the future we envision.

PassiveLogic’s infinitely configurable platform enables users to design their own custom autonomous systems. We've reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to replace legacy control logic with real-time control decisions at the edge, reducing the world’s carbon footprint, while paving the way for the future of smart cities. We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on real-world solutions to some of the toughest problems.

You must have
  • Bachelor's or Masters of Industrial Design
  • 6+ years of Industrial Design (or related field)
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to apply a user-centered design approach to complex design challenges
  • Strong visualization and storytelling skills
  • Excellent time management skills, attentional to detail, and the ability to think and act strategically and proactively
  • 3D CAD modeling proficiency (preferably in Solidworks or Autodesk Inventor)
  • Experience with Adobe products - Illustrator, Photoshop, etc
  • Proficiency in rapid prototyping methods
  • Proficiency in Keyshot or other rendering software
You should have
  • Experience in industrial design of consumer electronics
  • Experience working with complex assemblies and geometries
  • Experience managing CMF in manufacturing
  • Knowledge of a variety of manufacturing processes and materials
It’s helpful to have
  • UX, Animation, or other adjacent skill sets
  • Experience with manufacturers overseas
  • Experience designing for manufacturing

Compensation, Perks, & Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity share
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, FSA, HSA, Disability, and Term Life Insurance
  • Annual PTO front loaded on Day 1 (no accruals!)
  • Well stocked break room snacks and catered lunch Monday through Friday
  • Free ski passes (We are at the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon)
  • Free National Park passes
  • We push our performance personally as well as professionally, and we do respect flexible hours around well earned powder days

To apply for this position please send:
  • A cover letter telling us why you're the perfect candidate for PassiveLogic
  • A resume
  • A link to your portfolio displaying your industrial design work
  • Extra mile — include a description of a project (of any type) you personally created, devised, built, managed, organized, or designed that was of your own self-initiative

We are looking for practitioners who are passionate about understanding people, committed to lifelong learning, and driven by the love of what they do. We know there are candidates who might not fit everything we’ve described above, or who might have experience and skills we haven’t considered. If that’s you, please apply.

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is woven into our values and everything we do. We welcome all — come as you are and bring your whole self. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity every day by maintaining a safe and inclusive environment for our employees at every stage of their careers.

Unsolicited resumes sent to PassiveLogic, including unsolicited resumes sent to PassiveLogic business mailing address, fax machine, email address, or directly to PassiveLogic employees, will be considered PassiveLogic property. PassiveLogic will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

Department
Hardware Engineering
Locations
Salt Lake City, UT
Employment type
Full-time

About PassiveLogic

PassiveLogic's mission is to empower people through generative autonomy to solve the world’s largest climate challenges. We are disrupting the world of automation with the first platform for generalized autonomy — and we're tackling buildings first. Buildings are the largest controlled infrastructure in the economy and they consume 41% of the world's energy resources. The opportunity for impact is unparalleled.

Our culture is built on bringing together the most talented engineers, thinkers, and creatives — backed by the world’s leading investors — working collaboratively across disciplines to make the future we envision a reality.

PassiveLogic’s infinitely configurable platform enables users to design their own custom autonomous systems. We've reinvented the fundamental principles of automation to replace legacy control logic with real-time control decisions at the edge, reducing the world’s carbon footprint, while paving the way for the future of smart cities. We are looking for team members who have a passion for technology and want to work on cutting-edge solutions to real-world problems.

Founded in 2016
Co-workers About 100
Hardware Engineering · Salt Lake City, UT

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