Industrial Design Engineer – XR/VR

• Job Title: Industrial Design Engineer – XR/VR / Industrial Design Engineer 3
• Location: Sunnyvale, CA or Peachtree Corners, GA (Hybrid) 3 days Onsite a week & 2 days remote
• Duration: 09+ months (Possibilities of extension)
• Pay Rate:- $80-$100/hr

Job Description:

Essential Job Duties:

• 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 intuitive and 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

Required Skills and Experience:

• 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

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 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 Intuitive products
• Experience applying human factors engineering principles to product design
• Background in user research or usability testing methodologies