Concept Modeling Designer

Meta · Big Tech · Seattle, WA

Concept Modeling Designer for hardware products, focusing on 3D modeling in CAD software. The role involves iterating on digital 3D models, exploring design ideas, and combining usability, aesthetics, and technical insight. It requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and experience with various modeling techniques and rendering programs. The role also emphasizes integrating AI tools to optimize workflows and adhering to ethical AI practices, with ongoing AI skill development being important.

What you'd actually do

Quickly build and iterate on digital 3D Models of Hardware Products using multiple CAD softwares (sub-divisional, facets, classical nurbs, etc.)
Facilitate the exploration of design ideas by working with the ID team, capturing their ideas and turning them into digital (and 3D-printable) shapes
Combine usability, aesthetics, and technical insight to solve complex design problems
Contribute concepts and problem solving across multiple projects
Navigate cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative environment

Skills

Required

Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, motion design, art/animation or related field. (Or relevant experience.)
5+ years of experience in 3D modeling, 3D art, Industrial Design or a related field
2+ years experience of concepting and modeling consumer electronics or wearable tech products
Demonstrated expertise in 3D modeling with a solid skill set of techniques ranging from sub-divisional, facets, classical nurbs, etc. (Rhino, Alias, 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc.)
Experience working with imported 3D CAD data, manipulating, editing, adding to it, etc
Experience in a physically-based rendering program(s) (Redshift, Octane, V-Ray, Arnold, Corona, Keyshot etc.)
Knowledge and experience with the Industrial Design process, tools and language
Expertise in Maya, and/or Blender, Cinema4D, Houdini, Redshift
Experience in creating simulations and procedural workflows (Houdini, Rhino Grasshopper and/or Cinema4D)

Nice to have

Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies)

What the JD emphasized

AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact
responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Read full job description

You get to be a geometry-creation magician in whatever CAD packages and/or styles of modelling (facets, sub-divisional, classical nurbs, etc.) you prefer. Just go fast. You'll be in our open-space studio, side-by-side with designers building the next generation of hardware shipped worldwide by a multi-national corporation, intuiting their directions, taking in conversations, sketches, screenshots, CAD, whatever. Chase all the options (even your own, but ego left at home) to find the right solution.

Responsibilities

Quickly build and iterate on digital 3D Models of Hardware Products using multiple CAD softwares (sub-divisional, facets, classical nurbs, etc.) Facilitate the exploration of design ideas by working with the ID team, capturing their ideas and turning them into digital (and 3D-printable) shapes Combine usability, aesthetics, and technical insight to solve complex design problems Contribute concepts and problem solving across multiple projects Navigate cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative environment

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in industrial design, motion design, art/animation or related field. (Or relevant experience.) 5+ years of experience in 3D modeling, 3D art, Industrial Design or a related field 2+ years experience of concepting and modeling consumer electronics or wearable tech products Demonstrated expertise in 3D modeling with a solid skill set of techniques ranging from sub-divisional, facets, classical nurbs, etc. (Rhino, Alias, 3D Studio Max, Maya, etc.) Experience working with imported 3D CAD data, manipulating, editing, adding to it, etc Experience in a physically-based rendering program(s) (Redshift, Octane, V-Ray, Arnold, Corona, Keyshot etc.) Knowledge and experience with the Industrial Design process, tools and language Expertise in Maya, and/or Blender, Cinema4D, Houdini, Redshift Experience in creating simulations and procedural workflows (Houdini, Rhino Grasshopper and/or Cinema4D) Great knowledge of Industrial Design best practices Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements) Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews) Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies