Sr. Industrial Designer

About the company

True Anomaly is a defense technology company that builds autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors.

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message">Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.</p> <p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><u>OUR MISSION</u></p> <p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message">True Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors — enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.</p> <p class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><u>OUR VALUES</u></p> <ul> <li class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><strong>Be the offset.</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.</li> <li class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><strong>What would it take?</strong>&nbsp;We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.</li> <li class="ms-outlook-mobile-reference-message"><strong>It’s the people.</strong>&nbsp;Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.</li> </ul></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">YOUR MISSION</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":240,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Creatives like you are essential to this mission — to inspire, define, and build. This is some of the most meaningful work&nbsp;you’ll&nbsp;ever do, in an industry devoted to protecting the people you care about.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We’re&nbsp;looking for an experienced industrial designer to&nbsp;be part of&nbsp;our&nbsp;new&nbsp;hardware design team at an early and exciting moment for the company. This is a fully hands-on role — sketching, modelling, prototyping, and detailing real hardware, and whatever else the mission demands. There is no team to manage and no agency to brief; your artistic talent is&nbsp;front&nbsp;and center and your own hands are on the work.&nbsp;You’ll&nbsp;work directly with our design leadership and with the engineers building the hardware, in a team being built for people who care as much about the craft as the mission.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">WHY THIS ROLE</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":240,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">There’s&nbsp;no established playbook for how space security hardware should look. No legacy design language handed down from a fifty-year-old program. No committee approving your surfaces. What you&nbsp;craft&nbsp;here will shape how an emerging and critical industry presents itself — and how seriously it is taken.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">You’ll&nbsp;have real&nbsp;impact on our space hardware with some of what&nbsp;of what you design&nbsp;making it on-orbit, and the rest will be seen at the highest levels of government and military.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">If&nbsp;you’ve&nbsp;ever wanted your craft to carry real weight — this is that job.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">RESPONSIBILITIES</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">&nbsp;— hands-on hardware design</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":240,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Help us build our&nbsp;family&nbsp;of&nbsp;products. Take hardware from concept to production — sketch, model, prototype, refine, and detail</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Work through the real compromises with hardware engineering — packaging, thermal, structural, harness routing — and keep the design intent alive on the other side</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Prototype physically and quickly. Print it, mock it up, hold it, and be honest about what you learn</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Produce the&nbsp;renders, animations, and drawings that let executives, customers, and manufacturing partners see exactly what we intend to build</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559740":240}">&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226