Industrial Design Engineer 3

Mountain View, CA 94043

Posted:

10/14/2026

Employment Type:

Contract

Job Number:

32510

Job Location:

Onsite

Industry:

MDEV - Medical Device

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Industrial Design Engineer 3

Position Description:

Protingent Staffing has an exciting contract Industrial Design Engineer 3 with our client located in Sunnyvale, CA.

Job Responsibilities:

Audit the current VR application and accumulated user feedback; rmend a holistic strategy to improve usability, cohesiveness, and learning oues while retaining the application's core direction

Propose interaction designs informed by XR best practices, usability risks, and customer feedback while balancing hardware constraints, timelines, and development effort

Rapidly produce design concepts (user flows, sketches, prototypes) from product requirements and mature them into functional requirements the development team can implement in Unity

Facilitate design reviews;municate design rationale and trade-offs clearly; incorporate input from product management, human factors engineering, and development; drive decisions toward implementation

Collaborate with Human Factors to convert identified usability risks and findings into practical, implementable design requirements

Design or refine XR interactions that are easy to learn for novice XR users

Establish and maintain a design repository documenting XR interaction best practices, human factors heuristics, and product-specific visual and interaction designs.

Job Qualifications:

4+ years of hands-on experience designing, prototyping, and shipping XR/VR products

Portfolio demonstrating strong XR design judgment with shipped products and measurable usability improvements

Track record of delivering incremental improvements within an established product direction while maintaining a cohesive long-term design strategy

Demonstrated ability to work shoulder-to-shoulder with developers during design ss to implement functional requirements

Required Education and Training

Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, or related field — or equivalent professional experience.

Nice To Have:

Experience designing XR training or simulation content

Proficiency with Unity or similar real-time 3D engines

Experience in medical device, healthcare, or learning and development

Familiarity with surgical robotics or the products

Experience ing human factors engineering principles to product design

Background in user research or usability testing methodologies.

Job Details:

Job Type:

Contract

Pay rate: $85- $95 an hour

Location:

Sunnyvale, CA.

Benefits Package:

Protingent offerspetitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-taxmuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO) and an administered 401k plan.