Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics

OpenAI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead Industrial Designer, Robotics role at OpenAI focused on defining the visual identity, form language, and physical expression of robotic products to advance general-purpose robotics and AGI-level intelligence.
• Day-to-day responsibilities include creating sketches, renderings, digital concepts, and physical prototypes; developing production-intent surface geometry for engineering CAD workflows; collaborating with product, engineering, and leadership teams; driving industrial design decisions across the product lifecycle; conducting design reviews; supporting rapid prototyping; and establishing design standards and workflows.
• The Robotics team at OpenAI integrates cutting-edge hardware and software across the full model stack to explore diverse robotic form factors, blending high-level AI with physical system constraints to improve people’s lives.
• In this role, you will shape the long-term design vision for future robotic systems, refine a cohesive design language across platforms, and ensure design integrity from concept through manufacturing while balancing aesthetics, usability, manufacturability, and engineering constraints.

🎯 Requirements

• Exceptional taste and strong intuition for proportion, form, surface quality, and physical product design
• Ability to collaborate closely with engineers and navigate both design and technical constraints
• Capability to move from ambiguous product concepts to detailed, production-ready design assets
• Experience designing consumer electronics, robotics, transportation, or advanced hardware systems
• Proficiency with industry-standard tools such as Alias, NX, Rhino, Blender, Gravity Sketch, or equivalent
• Experience creating CAD geometry, Class A surfaces, or production-intent digital assets for engineering teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Relocation assistance for new employees
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge robotics and AGI-level intelligence projects
• In-office collaboration 4 days per week in San Francisco
• Access to OpenAI’s mission-driven environment focused on safe and beneficial AI deployment
• Equal opportunity employer with commitment to diversity, inclusion, and reasonable accommodations
• Exposure to end-to-end product development from concept to manufacturing with hardware engineering teams

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About OpenAI, Inc.

OpenAI is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research and deployment company founded in 2015. It develops large-scale AI models such as GPT, DALL-E, and Codex, providing cloud APIs and consumer applications like ChatGPT. Originally established as a non-profit, it later created a capped-profit subsidiary to attract capital while maintaining its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

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