Digital Design Engineer (Robotics)

Location: San Carlos, CA, United States; fully on-site.

Salary: $175,000–$215,000 per year plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops humanoid robots, including NEO, a general-purpose robot designed to operate safely alongside people in homes.

What you will do

• Own Class-A surface development for NEO softgoods and touch-facing components, delivering G2/G3-continuous, highlight-clean surfaces.
• Translate industrial design sketches, clay models, and scan data into precise digital geometry while preserving design intent through tooling release.
• Integrate surfaces with adjacent rigid and soft parts, robot articulation, sensors, cooling, service access, and range-of-motion requirements.
• Drive manufacturing feasibility for molded foams, elastomers, and textile-wrapped parts, including draft, parting lines, shut-offs, wall thickness, tooling splits, and material behavior.
• Deliver organized geometry to engineering, tooling partners, and vendors, including transfers from Alias into parametric CAD and complex lattice structures.
• Set digital surfacing standards, quality checks, modeling workflows, and data structures for the team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional Class-A surface modeling experience in Alias and/or ICEM Surf.
• Expert-level Autodesk Alias surfacing skills, including production-quality surfaces, controlled curvature, clean highlights, G2/G3 continuity, and zebra, highlight, and curvature analysis.
• Strong design-intent fidelity with the ability to interpret sketches and clay models and preserve form, proportion, and reflection quality through engineering changes.
• Knowledge of manufacturing surfacing, including draft, parting lines, tooling splits, shrink, and the behavior of foams, elastomers, and textiles.
• Experience moving geometry between Alias, parametric CAD such as SolidWorks, NX, and Onshape, scan data, and complex lattice-structure tools.
• Cross-functional collaboration experience with industrial designers, softgoods and mechanical engineers, tooling partners, and vendors.
• Production-shipping experience in consumer products, automotive, footwear, or another high-finish industry.
• Portfolio featuring professional surfacing work, personal projects, and passion projects; highlight and zebra renders are encouraged.
• Ability to work fully on-site in San Carlos.

Nice to have

• Experience designing complex lattice structures and conforming them to Class-A surfaces for additively manufactured soft and rigid parts.
• Experience with 3D scanning and reverse-engineering workflows, such as Geomagic or PolyWorks.
• Familiarity with VRED, KeyShot, or Blender for visualization and design reviews.
• Experience creating accurate color and texture/bump maps for knits, leathers, foams, and elastomers.
• Familiarity with mold design, tooling, and GD&T for molded and over-molded parts.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment emphasizing ownership, speed, direct communication, high standards, honesty, and respect.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage; paid time off, company holidays, and parental leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match, plus FSA and HSA options.
• Commuter benefits, short- and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• On-site snacks and catered lunches.