Hardware Product Designer

Hardware Product Designer

Part Time Contractor

Shelter Devices Dogpatch San Francisco 20 hrs/wk on-site 36 months intent to hire full-time

Own the mechanical and industrial design for an NPI physical AI consumer device alongside a team of hardware engineers and existing design prototypes.

Re-architect internals as the BOM evolves: new sensor and RF technologies audio system.

Design for sensors and audio: RF-transparent enclosure regions speaker enclosure. You dont need to be an RF or acoustics engineer but you need to work well with them.

Run the 3D print farm: DFAM tolerancing post-processing (vapor smoothing finishes).

Material selection for the enclosure suitable for a consumer home product.

Design for older hands and eyes: large tactile controls high contrast arthritis-friendly.

4 years designing physical consumer products with at least one shipped at volume

Fluent in the CAD software of your choosing (SolidWorks preferred)

Hands-on 3D printing and rapid prototyping

Industrial design chops: form proportion CMF finish. Portfolio required.

Bay Area based in the SF office 2 days/week.

Audio products: speaker enclosures acoustic tuning fabric grilles

Rendering (KeyShot/Blender) soft goods or wood/metal fabrication

Robotics medical device or senior-facing product exposure

DFM for injection molding and CM assembly

Contract: 36 months part time 20hrs/week

Rate: $110/hr

Conversion: Convert into a full-time role with equity at the end of the contract assuming mutual fit

Equipment: Workstation SolidWorks seat print farm lab access

Location: Dogpatch San Francisco CA

Shelter Devices is a pre-seed stage startup building a new category of physical AI for older adults in the home to keep families connected and offer peace of mind. The team is ex-Apple Stanford and Harvard sensing and robotics engineers. First units are already deployed in homes and senior facilities; now we need a designer.

We are looking for someone to own product design and industrial design end to end form materials CAD prototyping and the path to production. You will be the first dedicated product design hire working directly with the founders.

Send a portfolio and a few lines on the product youre proudest of and what youd change about it now to . Include your earliest start date.

Required Experience:

IC