Autonomous ★ 4.2

Who we are

Autonomous is a US company founded in 2015. We design and manufacture our own hardware and sell it worldwide, from offices in New York, San Francisco, Shenzhen and Saigon. We publish our CAD, electronics and firm ware as open source.

The product

Factory is our newest line of business: describe a product, and it gets made and shipped. You type a description or drop in an image, and it comes back as a real object you can hold — vases, keycaps, deskgear, board games, cosplay props. Anyone can remix someone else's design into their own and print it.

The app behind it, Vibe, is open source: it turns a description into parametric CAD, previews it in 3D, and sends it straight to a printer.

What you will do

• Design the objects Factory makes — form, proportion, details, and how the thing feels in someone's hand.
• Create 3D models, CAD files, renders and prototype-ready concepts.
• Own the printer. Print your own designs, see what fails, fix it, print again.
• Design inside real printing constraints: wall thickness, overhangs, orientation, supports, tolerance and fit, print time, material.
• Build your designs as parametric fam ilies rather than one-off files, so the tool can generate variants instead of you redrawing them.
• Look at what the AI generates and make it better — when a result is ugly orwill not print, say why, and help us fix it at the source.
• Prepare renders and turntables for the Factory feed, the app and the store.

What we are looking for

• A portfolio of real objects you designed that actually got made — products, props, accessories, printed parts.
• Photos of parts in your hand count for more with us than renders.
• Solid 3D modelling and CAD skills: Fusion 360, SolidWorks, Rhino, Blender or similar. Fusion 360 preferred.
• You 3D print your own work. You have run a printer yourself and you know what wall thickness, overhangs,orientation, supports and fit cost you in practice.
• Design judgment you can explain — why this proportion, this radius, this thickness — in terms someone else can act on.
• AI-native — you use AI in your daily work, from generating variations and comparing design options to speeding up modelling and file preparation. We build AI hardware, and we expect you to work that way.
• If you have a page of models you have shared — Printables, MakerWorld, Thingiverse, ArtStation — send us the link. It is the first thing we will look at.

What we offer

• Competitive salary package with full medical and dental coverage.
• Flexible working time and a fast-moving team environment.
• Free lunch, snacks, and coffee at the office.
• Unlimited sick leave, official holidays, and at least 12 paid days off annually.
• MacBook, laptop, monitor, standing desk, and the tools you need to do your best work.
• Access to online courses and AI tools that help you work better.