Industrial Design Intern

Join us to reimagine the future of human-robot interaction.

Collaborative Robotics is a team of innovators and builders redefining the future of human-robot interaction. We are working to realize a world where robots are a trusted extension of your surroundings. They work, adapt, and react around you. Not the other way around.

As an Industrial Design Intern, you’ll help shape how future Cobot platforms visual language while contributing directly to the evolution of Proxie today. This role sits at the intersection of exploration and execution: imagining what cobots could become, then helping turn those ideas into tangible designs.

You’ll collaborate closely with designers, engineers, and product partners to translate vision into form, moving fluidly from rough sketches and quick prototypes to more refined, high-fidelity design work. Your work will influence not just surfaces and details, but the emerging design language that defines how humans experience robots in the real world.

This is an opportunity to work on real products, with real constraints, while still having space to explore what’s next.

This role is located at our Santa Clara, CA office.

This is a full-time, 6-month internship, with a flexible start date.

The application deadline for this role is January 11th, 2026. Interviews will take place mid-late January 2026.

Key Responsibilities:

• Explore future cobot platforms and evolving design language beyond the current Proxie system.

• Support day-to-day Proxie industrial design refinement, including form, CMF, and detail development.

• Translate product vision and early ideas into tangible design work, from low-fidelity concepts to higher-fidelity execution.

• Create sketches, CAD, renderings, and prototypes to communicate design intent and explore ideas.

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners and participate in design reviews, incorporating feedback and constraints.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing or have completed a Bachelor’s degree or higher in Industrial Design, Concept Art, Transportation Design, or a related field.

• Strong sense of aesthetics with high attention to detail and visual refinement.

• Excellent sketching skills and solid CAD capability.

• Highly motivated teammate with excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Enjoy working in a fast paced, collaborative and dynamic start-up environment as part of a small team.

• Willing to occasionally travel.

• Must have and maintain US work authorization.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in a graduate program (e.g., Master’s, PhD, or other post-baccalaureate program) in Industrial Design or a closely related field.

The non-exempt hourly range for this intern position is $30-40/hr. Our ranges are determined by role and experience level. The range reflects the minimum and maximum target for intern rates for the position in Santa Clara, CA. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Cobot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

To all recruitment agencies: Collaborative Robotics does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our employees. Collaborative Robotics is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.