Amruta Ghosalkar

Industrial designer with 7+ years developing healthcare and deep-tech hardware — spanning surgical robotics, diagnostic devices, and bioprinting platforms. Track record of leading concept development in regulated, engineering-intensive R&D environments; solving first-principles hardware problems with no established precedent; building cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, clinical, and investor stakeholders; and communicating complex design decisions to drive measurable product and business outcomes.

Industrial Design Engineer (Contractor) - Intuitive Surgical

(2025-02 - 2026-03)

ION Endoluminal System — robotic bronchoscopy

• Leadership: Directed concept development for next-generation surgical hardware within a multidisciplinary R&D organization — setting design direction, prioritizing prototyping investments, and building consensus across engineering, product management, and human factors without formal management authority.
• Problem Solving: Built and tested proof-of-concept prototypes to systematically evaluate reach envelopes, workflow integration, form factors, and user interaction patterns prior to CAD commitment — de-risking engineering investment and enabling evidence-based design decisions in a regulated development environment.
• Teamwork: Operated as the embedded design voice in a predominantly engineering-driven R&D team; facilitated structured design reviews and translated ergonomic and usability requirements into shared engineering constraints across disciplines.
• Communication: Authored structured design rationale and product requirement documentation; translated clinical insights and human factors findings into hardware constraints legible to engineering stakeholders, accelerating alignment across design iterations.

Industrial Design Intern - Frontier Bio

(2019-01 - 2020-12)

• Leadership: Owned the entire industrial design program for the company's first bioprinter — from concept generation and form-factor development to product visualization — operating as the sole designer on a novel deep-tech platform with no established precedent.
• Creativity: Established the product's design language and visual identity from scratch, defining how a category-creating technology would be perceived by investors, partners, and prospective customers before any product existed in the market.
• Communication: Created product concepts and visual assets that directly supported Frontier Bio's initial financing activities, contributing to the company's first funding round — demonstrating the role of design communication in early-stage business development.
• Problem Solving: Navigated first-principles hardware constraints for a novel bioprinting platform with no existing product precedent, no established visual language, and no vendor ecosystem — developing form and function simultaneously under deep technical ambiguity.

Industrial Design Consultant - Circuit Launch - Oakland, CA

(2020-01 - 2020-12)

• Leadership: Led UX strategy for Circuit Launch's Monty robotic barista platform; facilitated design-thinking workshops for the hardware incubator's engineering-driven community, introducing human-centered design practice to cross-disciplinary hardware teams at the organizational level.
• Problem Solving + Creativity: Designed the industrial design vision and market positioning for Root Applied Sciences' early-stage pathogen detection device — establishing product form, visual language, and brand narrative for an emerging biotech platform pre-launch.
• Teamwork: Collaborated across two simultaneous engagements — a robotics startup and a biotech diagnostics company — integrating into engineering-first teams and building shared design frameworks where none existed.

Industrial Design Intern - Lenart Studio

(2024-01 - 2024-12)

• Problem Solving + Teamwork: Developed next-generation scanner concepts for Datalogic's Magellan product line, balancing high-volume retail ergonomics, optical system constraints, and commercial aesthetics alongside the principal designer; one resulting concept, the Magellan 3600VSi, entered commercial production in 2024.
• Communication: Produced detailed visualizations, renderings, and concept illustrations for client-facing design reviews, supporting design decisions and stakeholder alignment across the client relationship.

Industrial Design Intern - Bevi

(2023-01 - 2023-12)

• Communication + Teamwork: Conducted user and stakeholder research, synthesizing findings into journey maps, storyboards, and design concepts used across cross-functional teams to communicate product opportunities and support decision-making.
• Problem Solving: Performed competitive benchmarking and concept exploration to evaluate future product directions, identifying usability challenges and framing design opportunities for the product and engineering roadmap.

CAD Sculptor - Tata Elxsi - Bangalore, India

(2014-01 - 2015-12)

3D Artist - Foley Design - Bangalore, India

(2015-01 - 2016-12)

Master of Fine Arts (MFA) - Industrial Design - Academy of Art University (2022-01 - 2024-12)

Master of Arts (MA) - Industrial Design - Academy of Art University (2017-01 - 2019-12)

Bachelor of Design (B.Des) - Digital Design - DSK International School of Design (2009-01 - 2013-12)