Robotics Senior Digital Designer

This role sits at the intersection of aesthetic vision and engineering rigour, leading all surface design activities across the full product development cycle for Helsing's robotics portfolio. You will take ownership from concept creation through to serial production, ensuring every surface decision reflects Helsing's Design DNA while meeting technical and manufacturing requirements. Working across industrial design, engineering, and supplier teams, you will translate digital intent into tangible, high-quality robotic and drone systems, bridging strategic design thinking with hands-on execution to deliver products that perform in the real world.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and validation of Class A surfaces across multiple concurrent projects, from early sketch phases to tooling release and production ramp-up, ensuring every output meets aesthetic, functional, and manufacturing requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of expertise for surface and design solutions, providing guidance on visual continuity and manufacturability to cross-functional teams including industrial designers, engineers, tooling specialists, and suppliers.
• Drive real-world testing, mockup evaluations, and tactile reviews, ensuring digital designs translate accurately into high-quality, production-ready products.
• Collaborate daily with product teams, engineering, marketing, and project leadership to resolve technical challenges and maintain seamless alignment between design intent and production realities.
• Manage timelines and prioritise deliverables across projects at varying maturity levels, balancing design quality, cost-efficiency, and time-to-market without compromising on detail-level excellence.
• Lead the development and validation of Class A surfaces across multiple concurrent projects, from early sketch phases to tooling release and production ramp-up, ensuring every output meets aesthetic, functional, and manufacturing requirements.
• Serve as the primary point of expertise for surface and design solutions, providing guidance on visual continuity and manufacturability to cross-functional teams including industrial designers, engineers, tooling specialists, and suppliers.
• Drive real-world testing, mockup evaluations, and tactile reviews, ensuring digital designs translate accurately into high-quality, production-ready products.
• Collaborate daily with product teams, engineering, marketing, and project leadership to resolve technical challenges and maintain seamless alignment between design intent and production realities.
• Manage timelines and prioritise deliverables across projects at varying maturity levels, balancing design quality, cost-efficiency, and time-to-market without compromising on detail-level excellence.

Requirements

• Have built and delivered Class A surfaces for complex products from concept to mass production, with hands-on expertise in tools such as Alias, ICEM Surf, Maya, Blender, or CATIA.
• Bring deep knowledge of manufacturing processes, materials, and design-for-manufacturing principles, with a track record of optimising designs for performance, cost, and scalability.
• Have led surface and design workstreams across global, cross-functional teams, managing stakeholders and resolving competing priorities with clarity and sound judgement.
• Can articulate design intent and technical requirements clearly to diverse audiences, from industrial designers to suppliers, engineers, and senior leadership.
• Have worked in the robotics domain and can move comfortably between strategic design decisions and detailed technical surfacing work.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with visualisation tools such as VRED, KeyShot, or Blender, and experience using rapid prototyping techniques including 3D printing to validate surfaces and concepts efficiently.
• Background working in agile or lean development environments, including start-up settings, across sectors such as automotive, consumer electronics, defence, or transportation.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and VSOP options
• Relocation support: up to €2,500 and 4 weeks temporary accommodation
• Learning: €500/£450 yearly allowance
• Health & wellness: gym membership and mental health support (Nilo.health)
• Social: regular company events and monthly social allowances
• Enhanced parental leave: 22 weeks fully paid for primary caregivers & 6 weeks for secondary caregivers
• Family support: 5 days of paid family emergency leave, 100% remote work option during pregnancy and phased return to work
• A hands-on onboarding program (affectionately labelled “Infraduction”), in which you will be building tooling and applications to be used across the company. This is your opportunity to learn our tech stack, explore the company, and learn how we get things done - all whilst working with other engineering teams from day one