Senior Industrial Designer

Fresco North - Marlborough, MA USA

Fresco seeks a Senior Industrial Designer who is highly creative, driven, and passionate about delivering exceptionally designed products for end users.

At Fresco, we design, iterate, and prototype daily, giving you the opportunity to quickly realize, test, evaluate, and evolve your ideas. You'll develop creative design solutions through sketching, CAD development, and rapid prototyping while collaborating closely with our team of industrial designers, 3D experts, mechanical engineers, design engineers, and model makers.

Our projects span medical devices, wearables, robotics, consumer products, and other technically challenging products. You can expect to tackle ergonomic challenges, unique form factors, advanced manufacturing processes, complex assemblies, and integrations of soft and hard goods.

As a flat organization, everyone at Fresco works directly with clients. You will document your work daily, present your work regularly, discuss ideas, and receive feedback in both virtual and in-person client meetings.

Responsibilities / Qualifications

  • 7-10 years of professional industrial design experience in a high-output environment. A mixed experience of corporate and consulting work is highly desirable.

  • Experience in designing medical devices, wearables, and products with critical usability considerations is a plus.

  • Experience designing products where human factors, ergonomics, and usability are critical.

  • Collaborate with our internal team as well as client-side design, engineering, marketing, and manufacturing teams.

  • Active participation in the creative process, design reviews, and physical prototype development.

  • Demonstrated product design experience in one or more of the following: medical devices, embedded electronics, wearables, consumer products, and hard/soft goods integration.

  • Rapid visualization skills using 2D sketching (as presentation assets, live whiteboards, and digital sketching/markup in screen-sharing sessions).

  • Proficient in 3D surfacing workflows in Rhino or Solidworks.

  • Experience maximizing print quality in 3D slicing software.

  • Experience or interest in supporting client manufacturing and supplier relationships.

  • Familiarity with, or interest in learning, modelmaking processes such as CNC machining, SLA/FDM 3D printing, metal fabrication, painting and finishing, and soft goods fabrication.

  • Excellent written, visual, and documentation skills, which will be applied daily for internal project logs and communication with clients.

  • Self-motivated and accountable, with the ability to manage priorities, maintain productivity, and meet deadlines.

  • A love of learning and an openness to new design processes, tools, markets, industries, and cultures.

  • This role may require travel.

Location

Fresco North – Marlborough, MA USA

This is a 100% on-site position.

Fresco culture

Fresco is a collaborative and fail-safe work environment. We value a strong work ethic and design excellence. We combine hands-on working sessions with asynchronous team communication to keep Fresco North and Fresco South studios in-synch and connected in the creative process.

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Applicants must have valid work permit in the USA.

Please send your resume and portfolio to and tell us why you're a great fit for this role.

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