Hardware Product Designer
About Menlo
Menlo Research is an Applied R&D lab building Asimov, an open-source humanoid robot platform, and the full software stack that powers it. Our mission is to make humanoid labor economically viable, turning software into physical labor at scale. We build across the full stack: hardware architecture, locomotion, autonomy, simulation, and infrastructure. We move fast, ship to real robots, and open-source everything we can. If you want your work to matter beyond a paper or a demo, this is the place.
The Role
We are looking for a Hardware Product Designer to own the physical form of Asimov. You will shape how the robot looks, feels, and reads to the people around it, and translate that vision into parts that manufacture, assemble, and survive the real world. This is design that ships to real hardware, not renders.
What You'll Do
Own industrial design for Asimov, from concept and form language to production-ready enclosures, covers, and structural aesthetics
Turn mechanical and electrical constraints into clean, intentional physical design without hiding the engineering
Drive CMF decisions across the platform: color, material, finish, texture, and how they hold up in the field
Prototype fast in foam, print, and machined parts, then iterate on real robots
Work shoulder to shoulder with mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing to keep designs buildable and repeatable
Own design for manufacturing and assembly, including tolerances, fastening, serviceability, and part count
Design the human-facing details: grips, handles, access panels, indicators, and anything a person touches or reads
What We Look For
A strong portfolio of shipped physical products, ideally complex electromechanical hardware
Deep industrial design fundamentals: form, proportion, ergonomics, and CMF
Fluency in CAD and surfacing, plus real DFM and DFA experience
Comfort moving from sketch to prototype to production without needing a large team around you
A bias for building, testing on hardware, and iterating quickly
Judgment about when to obsess over a detail and when to ship
Nice to Have
Robotics, consumer electronics, automotive, or wearables background
Experience taking a product from zero to first production run
Hands-on shop skills: 3D printing, machining, moldmaking, finishing
Feel for how design and brand reinforce each other
Why Join Menlo
You will define what a humanoid robot looks like at the moment the category is being written. Your work ships to real machines, in the real world, fast. If you want your design to live in hardware people actually use rather than a slide, this is the place.
A Note on AI
You don't need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect everyone at Menlo to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement. When that's the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don't treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.
Equal Opportunity and Accommodations
We hire talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. If you're excited about a role but don't meet every bullet, we still encourage you to apply. Menlo Research is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristic. Menlo provides reasonable accommodations during the application process. If you need one, please let your recruiter know.