Industrial Designer – Product Design

US Citizen or Permanent Resident

In-Person

Starts Immediately

85-120K Base Options and Incentives

Join us in building better airplanes faster, reindustrializing the Midwest, and turning autonomous aircraft into on-demand infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications for the sake of the “least of these”.

Your Role at Orb:

Re-imagine American Aviation, design from first principles to build novel air systems that are beautiful and functional.

Key Responsibilities

• Concept Modeling
• Concept Art/Rendering
• Class A Surfacing
• Designing Around Third-Party Components
• Integrating Third-Party Components
• Defining Electrical and Mechanical Interfaces
• Oversee Engineering and Manufacturing Execution
• Deploy with Customers – Understand Their Needs – Use Our Products
  
  
  

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience Designing for Manufacturing
• Experience in Design for Plastics Injection Molding
• Experience in 3D Printing and Modeling
• Experience in Design for CNC
• CAD Expert (NX, Autodesk, SolidWorks)
• Sub D Concept Modeling (Blender, Alias, NX, Fusion)
• Class A NURBs Surface Modeling
  
  
  

Build cathedrals, put the kingdom first, and play to win at Orb Aerospace

About Orb Aerospace: Orb was started with the mission to bring aviation to the 80% of the world that’s never had it; turning autonomous aircraft into tools to decentralize infrastructure, connect continents, protect soldiers, provide for families, and run economies. “Less like the flying taxis, more like the flying cowboys,” Orb is at the intersection of manned and unmanned aviation, reindustrializing the Midwest, and building the future we know is possible and want to live in.

About Node One: Node One is a small team of engineers and operators who have dedicated their lives to solving some of the world’s hardest problems through a new kind of aviation. Orb’s live-work-fly R&D HQ. Node One is all about reducing the cycle time to design, build, and fly aircraft from years to months and building the systems and platforms we’ll use to reach every village on the planet.

We stand on the shoulders of giants. Their great work allows us to accomplish ours. If you’ve been a rocket/airplane nerd and have a passion for designing, building, and flying airframes, autopilots, power systems, and embedded systems, or you love to push a new product through new manufacturing methods to a new market, come join the team at Node One and make history.

Orb Employees Are:

• High Agency and Biased Towards Action
• Have a History of Self-Starting, Pacing, and Finishing Projects
• Thrive with Autonomy to Design New Solutions to Partially Defined Problems
• Are Curious and Continue Learning
• Can Represent the Company to Stakeholders and Customers Forward Deployed
• Have Integrity and a Desire to Serve Others
  
  
  

Standard Benefits Package:

• Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical, dental, and vision
• $500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married/family
• Medical, Vision, Dental, Short/Long Term Disability, and Group/Voluntary Life Insurance
• Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match
  
  
  

Perks:

• Support in Getting your Pilots License and Ratings
• Support for Continuing Education
• Annual Customer Demos all over the World
  
  
  

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

• Options and Incentives