Design Intern (Industrial / Mechanical)

Morph, New York City +1

The role

Our headset has to fit many different heads, hold electrodes in steady contact with the scalp, stay comfortable through a full day, and look like something a person would choose to wear in public. It also has to work alongside a prosthetic hand. Every one of those is a design problem, and each one affects the signal our models learn from.

As a Design Intern, you'll spend five months on the physical design of that system, working directly with the founding team and our hardware engineers. You'll own a well-scoped project from first sketch to tested part, and be expected to ship something real: a headset revision we build, a fit or retention design we adopt, or a clear finding that changes what we try next.

Most of the work is industrial design: fit, materials and mechanisms, plus a hand in how the headset looks and feels, carried all the way through mechanisms and working prototypes. Some of it is product and interface design for the software people use to set up, calibrate and control the system.

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Design Intern (Industrial / Mechanical)

Morph, New York City +1

The role

What you need

Ownership. What you design goes into the headset we build and test, not a concept deck.
Direct access to the founders. You'll work beside the people making the decisions, with no layers in between.
Your designs on real heads, every day. We record new EEG daily, so your prototypes get worn and tested constantly.
Our own hardware. We build our own headset, electrodes and amplifier, so no part of the system is off limits to redesign.
An IRB already in place, covering both healthy participants and patients.
The resources to do the work. Equipment and materials won't be the bottleneck.

Who we're looking for

We're hiring industrial designers who build: students, recent grads, or anyone whose portfolio shows physical products they designed and made themselves. We judge your work, not your school, degree or résumé. You don't need a background in neuroscience, BCI or prosthetics.

What we expect

A portfolio of physical products you designed and built yourself, with a clear account of what was yours
Form you can defend: the proportions, materials and finishes you chose, and why
Sketch to CAD to physical prototype, many times over, with each round changing because of what you learned
Design work that had to fit the human body for hours: wearables, medical devices, protective or sports gear
Enough mechanical sense to make your designs actually work: tolerances, materials, mechanisms and assembly
Testing with real people, and design changes you made because of what you saw
Speed: iterations in days, not weeks

What sets candidates apart

Experience with wearables, medical devices or consumer hardware
Design for manufacturing experience, such as injection molding, machining or sheet metal
Experience packaging electronics: enclosures, cable routing, battery and thermal constraints
Product or interface design for software, especially for people with disabilities
Experience with prosthetics, orthotics or assistive technology
Work with soft goods, textiles or flexible materials

The bar is high on purpose. If your portfolio clears it, apply, whatever your background.

Design Intern (Industrial / Mechanical)

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Design Intern (Industrial / Mechanical)

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