Industrial Designer (Full-time) Job at Lead Dog Recruiting in Irvine

Lead Dog Recruiting has partnered with a fast-growing medical device company in Irvine to find a talented and versatile Industrial Designer to join their R&D team. This is a unique opportunity to shape products that improve lives across domestic and global markets—blending softgoods and hardgoods design into seamless, user-focused solutions. You’ll work hands-on with textiles, foams, plastics, and metals, while collaborating with passionate industrial designers, mechanical engineers, marketing, and manufacturing partners to transform bold ideas from sketch to full-scale production. Develop and present 2D and 3D design concepts for review and iteration Design, prototype, and test product concepts, materials, and functionality Translate Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) into practical design solutions Collaborate cross-functionally to align designs with performance, usability, and manufacturing requirements Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design (or related field) ~6+ years of product design and development experience ~4+ years managing or leading design projects ~ Proficiency in Rhino (2D) and SolidWorks (3D) ~ Solid understanding of materials and processes: plastics, foam, cut-and-sew fabrication, and basic metalwork This is an opportunity to apply your industrial design expertise to meaningful medical devices that impact people’s lives.