Industrial Design Engineer 3

Job Title: Industrial Design Engineer 3

Position Description: Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Industrial Design Engineer 3 with our client located in Sunnyvale, CA.

Job Responsibilities:

• Audit the current VR application and accumulated user feedback; recommend a holistic strategy to improve usability, cohesiveness, and learning outcomes while retaining the application's core direction
• Propose interaction designs informed by XR best practices, usability risks, and customer feedback while balancing hardware constraints, timelines, and development effort
• Rapidly produce design concepts (user flows, sketches, prototypes) from product requirements and mature them into functional requirements the development team can implement in Unity
• Facilitate design reviews; communicate design rationale and trade-offs clearly; incorporate input from product management, human factors engineering, and development; drive decisions toward implementation
• Collaborate with Human Factors to convert identified usability risks and findings into practical, implementable design requirements
• Design or refine XR interactions that are easy to learn for novice XR users
• Establish and maintain a design repository documenting XR interaction best practices, human factors heuristics, and product-specific visual and interaction designs.

Job Qualifications:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing, prototyping, and shipping XR/VR products
• Portfolio demonstrating strong XR design judgment with shipped products and measurable usability improvements
• Track record of delivering incremental improvements within an established product direction while maintaining a cohesive long-term design strategy
• Demonstrated ability to work shoulder-to-shoulder with developers during design sprints to implement functional requirements
• Required Education and Training
• Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or related field — or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Have:

• Experience designing XR training or simulation content
• Proficiency with Unity or similar real-time 3D engines
• Experience in medical device, healthcare, or learning and development
• Familiarity with surgical robotics or the products
• Experience applying human factors engineering principles to product design
• Background in user research or usability testing methodologies.

Job Details:

• Job Type: Contract
• Pay rate: $85- $95 an hour
• Location: Sunnyvale, CA.

Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.

About Protingent: Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation — from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We’re passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.