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Simple, but it's not.\nTo do this right, we have to solve robotics, AI, manufacturing at the same time, at scale, in a form factor that has to be safe enough to live with your family. If you're inspired by this, you'll thrive here. We've been at this since 2014 and we're at the point where the hard problems are behind us and the hard work is in front of us.\nNEO is our flagship, a general-purpose robot designed to move, learn, and operate in the real world alongside real people. We're not demoing it, we're shipping it. We're excited to meet you if this excites you.\nIf you've spent your career working on problems that matter and want to see them actually reach the world - this is that moment. We're scaling, we're hiring with intention and we need people who want to build something that will genuinely change how humans spend their time - safely creating abundance for all.\nAbout the Team\nThe Softgoods team is a group of makers, engineers, and designers united by a passion for creating products people love to touch, trust, and use. We bring together rigid and soft materials, textiles, elastomers, and foams, pairing traditional techniques with the exotic and unexpected, always with safety, a soft-touch experience, and a warm, welcoming feel at our core, carrying” with “. Safety, a soft-touch experience, and a warm, welcoming feel are at our core as we carry every product from first concept through prototyping to full mass production.\nYour Charter\nAs a Digital Design Engineer on the Softgoods team, you'll be the senior surface modeler who turns NEO's industrial design intent into production-grade digital geometry. Working primarily in Autodesk Alias (A-Surface / B-Surface / Class-A), you'll build the high-quality surfaces behind every part people see and touch, the soft covers, trims, foams and molded elastomers that make a humanoid robot feel welcoming at home. You'll sit between industrial design and engineering, translating sketches, clay, and scan data into precise, manufacturable surfaces, and carrying that geometry through tooling release and into mass production. Every Class-A surface you create must integrate seamlessly and functionally with NEO, flowing cleanly into adjacent parts while respecting the robot's joints, range of motion, sensors, thermal paths, and serviceability. Your surfaces become the single source of truth that patterns, molds, fixtures, and parts are built from. This is a fully on-site role, as the best work in this field happens collaboratively with surfaces reviewed against physical prototypes, hands on materials, ideas advancing quickly.\nKey Outcomes\nOwn Class-A surface development for NEO's softgoods and touch-facing components delivering G2/G3-continuous, highlight-clean surfaces that match design intent and are released on schedule.\n\nEnsure every Class-A surface integrates” with “Integrate every Class-A surface seamlessly and functionally with NEO: consistent gaps, flush and continuous transitions to adjacent rigid and soft parts, and full clearance for articulation, sensors, cooling, and service access across the robot's range of motion.\n\nTranslate industrial design concepts, sketches, clay, and 3D scan data into precise digital models, accountable for design fidelity from first concept through tooling release.\n\nDrive surface feasibility for manufacturing with draft, parting lines, shut-offs, wall thickness, and material behavior for molded foams, elastomers, and textile-wrapped parts so tooling is committed with minimal rework.\n\nDeliver clean, well-structured digital data to engineering, tooling partners, and vendors, owning the handoff from Alias into parametric CAD and complex lattice structures.\n\nSet the team's digital surfacing standards with quality checks, modeling workflows, and data structure, raising the surfacing skill of the people around you.\n\nKey Competencies\nExpert Class-A surfacing senior-level fluency in Autodesk Alias, building production-quality surfaces with controlled curvature, clean highlights, and G2/G3 continuity, verified through zebra, highlight, and curvature analysis.\n\nDesign-intent fidelity: a trained eye for form, proportion, and reflection; able to read a sketch or clay model and capture its character precisely, then hold that character through engineering changes.\n\nSurfacing for manufacture: understands how surfaces become tools and parts (draft, parting lines, tooling splits, shrink) and how soft materials (foams, elastomers, textiles) stretch, compress, and wrap over rigid structure.\n\nData pipeline mastery: moves geometry cleanly between Alias and parametric CAD (SolidWorks, NX, On-shape), scan data, and complex lattice structure tools, keeping models organized and downstream-ready.\n\nCross-functional collaboration: works fluidly with industrial designers, softgoods and mechanical engineers, and tooling partners, giving clear feedback on feasibility while protecting design intent.\n\nMinimum Requirements\n7+ years of professional Class-A surface modeling in Alias and/or ICEM Surf.\n\nProven track record of shipping production surfaces in consumer products, automotive, footwear, or another high-finish industry\n\nPortfolio showcasing your professional surfacing work, personal projects, and passion projects (highlight/zebra renders encouraged) Able to work fully on-site in San Carlos\n\nPreferred Skills\nExperience designing complex lattice structures and conforming them to Class-A surfaces for additively manufactured soft and rigid parts\n\nExperience in 3D scanning and reverse engineering workflows (e.g., Geomagic, PolyWorks)\n\nFamiliarity with visualization in VRED, KeyShot, or Blender for design reviews\n\nExperience creating accurate color and texture/bump maps that replicate complex materials such as knits, leathers, foams, and elastomers for true-to-life visualization\n\nFamiliarity with mold design, tooling, and GD&T for molded and over-molded parts\n\nWhat does a successful 1X Team Member look like\nTeam members at 1X who thrive here are builders. They move fast, own their work completely, and treat time like it's the one thing you can't get back - because it is. They say what they mean, finish what they start, and hold themselves to a standard before anyone has to ask. We push each other to be better, and we do it with honesty and respect.\nCompensation Range\n$175,000 - $215,000 + Equity\nBenefits\nComprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage\n\nGenerous paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave\n\n401(k) plan with company match (100% on the first 3% of contributions, 50% on the next 2%)\n\nFlexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) options\n\nCommuter benefits (transit and parking)\n\nShort-term and long-term disability, and life insurance\n\nEmployee Assistance Program (EAP) for mental health, financial, and personal support\n\nOnsite snacks and catered lunches\n\nEqual Opportunity Employer\n1X is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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