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Lead Product Designer
Sabi 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end industrial design and mechanical engineering of a sensor-rich wearable textile beanie. Lead the integration of electronics into soft goods and manage relationships with overseas contract manufacturers to ship the product.
Responsibilities
- Own ID and ME for the wearable end-to-end: sketch through CAD, prototype, tooling, and DfM with overseas CMs
- Lead the integration of electronics into soft goods: flex PCB packaging, rigid-island placement, textile-to-rigid transitions, weight distribution, thermal management, serviceability
- Define and enforce comfort engineering: pressure mapping, weight balance, skin-contact thermal limits, breathability, fit across head sizes and hair types, long-wear validation
- Drive the design language and material story for our brand's physical products: fabrics, seams, transitions, how the device announces itself or fades into the background
- Partner with the EE lead on rigid-island layout, antenna keep-outs, and electrode contact pressure; with audio and camera leads on acoustic ports, mic mesh, lens windows, and pod integration
- Partner with the reliability lead on drop, ingress, thermal, and ergonomic robustness
- Ship the product by end of year, and build and lead the product design function as ID and ME capability scales
Requirements
- 10+ years of industrial design and/or mechanical engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience integrating electronics into soft goods or textile products
- Deep CAD proficiency (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Rhino, or equivalent) and rendering (Keyshot or comparable)
- Strong instinct for comfort engineering
- Experience driving DfM, tooling, and quality with overseas CMs
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Meaningful equity package
- 401(k) with company matching
- Health insurance
- Flexible PTO
Key Skills
About Sabi
Sabi is a small team developing a noninvasive wearable that turns thought into text, backed by strong investors and assembling a world-class team to bring this to market.
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