Principal Product Designer, Robot Animation and Character, Fauna

Fauna Robotics is building capable, safe, and delightful robots for everyday life. We are hiring a Principal Product Designer to animate our robots and build a consistent character. This is the person who decides what our robot feels like as a sidekick in someone's home — and the person who animates it to get there.

You are an animator first, at the top of your craft. You will define the robot's personality and its expressive motion vocabulary — how it greets someone, shows curiosity, hesitates, celebrates, or settles into calm — and you will craft the performances that establish it, from first concept through what ships.

This is a hands-on animation and design role. You spend your days animating: blocking performances, refining timing, and dialing in the character. You'll work alongside Design Technologists, HRI researchers, and roboticists who own the tools, pipeline, and hardware — you bring the performance and the personality; they help you land it on a real robot. Our process is iterative and demo-led: block it out, put it on hardware, watch how it reads in the room, and let each pass sharpen the next.

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