Fauna Robotics is building capable, safe, and delightful robots for everyday life. We are hiring a Principal UX Designer to define what it feels like to live with a Fauna robot: how it earns trust, communicates intent, expresses character, and becomes a valued presence in someone’s home.
You will shape the robot’s interaction vocabulary alongside researchers, scientists, and engineers. You will create the principles and artifacts that guide how the entire team designs and builds interactions. And you will personally drive key design work from concept through production as the product moves toward launch. Our process is iterative and demo-led: build fast, evaluate honestly, and let each round of feedback sharpen the next.
The right candidate thinks in terms of character, emotion, and behavior. They’re comfortable working across physical expression, conversational interaction, and end-to-end experience journeys. They’ve designed systems that evolve over time and build relationships with people. And they’re excited about the opportunity to define what it means for robots to belong in our lives.
Key job responsibilities
- Shape the robot’s personality and identity by defining a north-star experience vision for how people live with, interact with, and develop relationships with Fauna’s robots
- Establish interaction design principles that guide how the team approaches robot interactions
- Create the artifacts that make interaction concepts tangible and evaluable: storyboards, behavioral scripts, journey maps, interaction flows, motion/timing studies, and concept videos
- Partner with the science and engineering teams to ensure design intent is achievable within technical constraints — and push back when the constraints should change
- Direct user research that exposes our blind spots through systematic, principled exploration
- Mentor and elevate the team’s design craft by establishing critique rituals, raising the bar for interaction quality, and growing the practice as the team scales
About the team
Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces.
Our HRI (Human-Robot Interaction) team focuses on making robots feel like companions — a partner that listens, responds, and feels present. The team spans reasoning, perception, audio, and expressive robotics. Your work defines the physical vocabulary that ties it all together: how a robot communicates what it’s thinking and feeling.
