Industrial Design Lead, Google Beam

What you'll do

• Drive end-to-end industrial design and factory-floor tooling validation for reference designs.
• Design and fabricate physical environments, custom furniture, telepresence booths, and event installations.
• Use generative AI and digital visualization workflows for concept exploration, user testing, and design storytelling; partner across teams and mentor designers and researchers.

What they ask for

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, Architecture, Media Arts and Sciences, Product Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of industrial design experience shipping mass-produced consumer electronics hardware end-to-end, including CAD, CMF, DFM, and factory-floor tooling.
• Experience building functional prototypes, appearance models, and reference specifications for ODM or OEM partners.
• Resume must include a portfolio or website link showcasing end-to-end hardware realization and cross-disciplinary projects.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-ambiguity 0-to-1 AI startups or research labs after foundational mass-production experience at a tier-1 consumer hardware organization.
• Multidisciplinary portfolio spanning spatial/interior architecture, event and installation design, 3D motion graphics, and video compositing/VFX; fluency with Generative AI workflows.

Pay

$188000 - $274000 (USD) base salary; + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Tools

3D CAD, Generative AI, Unreal, Unity, 3D motion graphics, video compositing/VFX

AI focus

Integrate Generative AI tools into concept exploration, visualization, prototyping, user-testing stimuli, and design storytelling.