The Role
Contribute to Gravis's design system, brand identity, and product UX. Create components, mockups, prototypes, and visual assets; run UX audits; explore AI-assisted design tools; document design decisions and gather operator feedback. On-site internship in a fast-moving robotics startup.
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About Gravis What We Build The Role
Gravis Robotics is turning the world's earthmoving machines into intelligent, autonomous robots. Our unique combination of learning-based automation and augmented remote control lets one operator safely conduct a fleet of machines. Our team has over a decade of academic experience honing the cutting edge of large-scale robotics and is rapidly growing to bring that expertise into a multi-billion dollar industry.
Operators interact with our platform through Slate: an interface that makes controlling and monitoring a fleet of heavy machines feel fast, spatial, and intuitive. Design at Gravis shapes how people experience that power: how they trust it, learn it, and want to use it every day. You'll be joining the team responsible for this interface: a cross-disciplinary group of game designers, UX/UI designers, C++ developers, and cloud/web engineers building spatial UI that is reliable, fast, and delightful to use. It's an environment where game development thinking meets real-world autonomy, and where design craft has a direct impact on how operators work in the field.
We're looking for a Design Intern with an exquisite eye and a relentless attention to detail. You'll work across three interconnected fronts: evolving our design system, sharpening our brand identity, and improving the UX of our products. You might work on experimenting with AI design tools to accelerate a component build, polishing the visual language of our brand across touchpoints, or collecting feedback from machine operators in the field. This is an on-site, hands-on role in a fast-moving startup: you'll contribute to real work that ships.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the Gravis design system: building, documenting, and maintaining components with consistency and precision
- Explore and integrate AI-assisted design tools (e.g. generative UI, design-to-code workflows) to accelerate output quality
- Support brand definition work: visual language, tone, color, typography, and how Gravis presents itself across touchpoints
- Conduct UX audits and propose improvements to the Slate interface and web presence
- Create UI mockups, prototypes, and visual assets for internal and external use
- Document design decisions and contribute to a growing design knowledge base
What We're Looking For
- Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a degree in Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or a related field
- A strong portfolio demonstrating visual taste, attention to detail, and design thinking across type, UI, branding
- Proficiency in Figma
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools or genuine curiosity to learn them
- Ability to work independently and move quickly without losing quality
- Fluency in English (our working language)
Bonus Points
- Experience with design systems or component libraries
- Exposure to UX research methods
- Interest in robotics, hardware, or industrial technology
What We Offer
This is a chance to do meaningful design work at a startup that's physically reshaping the world: from the roads you drive on to the foundations beneath your next home. Gravis offers a fair market internship compensation and a working location in Zurich. We're a compact, mission-driven team where your work will be visible and your taste will matter from day one.
Gravis is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to inclusion and diversity, and do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, gender expression, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. All qualified people are highly encouraged to apply.
Skills Required
- Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Visual Communication, or related field
- Strong portfolio demonstrating visual taste, attention to detail, and design thinking across type, UI, and branding
- Proficiency in Figma
- Familiarity with AI-assisted design tools or strong curiosity to learn them
- Ability to work independently and move quickly without losing quality
- Fluency in English
- Ability to work on-site in Zurich
- Experience with design systems or component libraries
- Exposure to UX research methods
- Interest in robotics, hardware, or industrial technology
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The Company
What We Do
Developing autonomy for heavy machinery to automate an industry with a slowly rising productivity and a global labour shortage
