Senior Industrial Designer

Há 4 semanas

Portugal Tempo integral

Take on a founding design role shaping the physical identity of a European robotics program from the ground up.
Work on real robots, real production systems, and a platform designed to power intelligent autonomy across industries.
Join a deeply cross-functional environment where industrial design has direct influence on hardware, usability, and brand expression.
Build products at the point where AI, robotics, and manufacturing come together in the real world.
Be part of a team with ambitious technical goals, meaningful ownership, and the opportunity to leave a visible mark on the future of robotics.
ABOUT DATAMENTORS
Datamentors is a robotics start-up building an agnostic orchestration platform and a family of proprietary robots — quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid — assembled at our own factory in Caniçal, Madeira. We also develop custom Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that give our robots natural-language reasoning and autonomy, deployable across sectors from hospitality and healthcare to defence and logistics. With prototypes running and a clear path to 600 units per year, the engineers joining now will shape both the hardware and the intelligence behind Ardia for years to come.
ROLE OVERVIEW
Design how Ardia robots look and move on the outside — body, posture, finish and on-robot interaction. You sit between industrial design and mechanical engineering, owning the visual and ergonomic language of our quadruped, mobile and humanoid platforms as the Madeira factory ramps from prototype to first units.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Own the industrial / product design of the robot exteriors across all three lines (quadruped, mobile upper-body and humanoid)
Translate engineering constraints into clean, manufacturable, recognisable forms
Work hand-in-hand with the Mechatronic Engineer and Head of Manufacturing on DFM
Define materials, finishes and colourways for the assembly line
Set the on-robot human-interaction details (lights, screens, sound, posture)
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
5+ years as a senior industrial / product designer (robotics, automotive, consumer hardware or medical device)
Strong portfolio of shipped physical products — not just renders
Comfortable with both CAD-style fidelity and craft-level industrial design
Familiarity with low-volume / high-mix manufacturing constraints
Nice to have
WHY DATAMENTORS
Competitive salary benchmarked to mainland plus a Madeira relocation premium
Founding hardware-design role for a European humanoid programme
Equity / participation in Datamentors growth
Access to a real robot fleet (Unitree G1, Go2) and an in-house assembly line
Health insurance, relocation and housing assistance
Structured progression as the plant scales to 600 units/year
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