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Senior Industrial Designer
Samsung Research America INC · 🇺🇸 201 Spear Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 55 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 18 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Samsung Research America INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Designer, Interaction Design” (Web and Digital Interface Designers) in CA: $121k–$157k, median $154k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 55 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 18 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Team Summary: Samsung Design Innovation Center is one of the leading overseas design studios in Samsung, located in San Francisco, CA. Our mission is to understand people and lifestyles to deliver meaningful experiences through beautiful yet functional design, enabled by innovative cutting-edge technologies. SDIC is working on various advanced product experiences which can envision and shape the future of Samsung Business, working with various internal teams through an experience-driven approach. Our work appears on smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions, wearables, home appliances, and other devices we can't describe yet. See some of our work at http://design.samsung.com/global/contents/sdic/ We design future experience-driven innovation opportunities with empathy and compassion for people across the Samsung Electronics portfolio. We uncover unmet and latent user needs through human-centered research and transform emerging technologies into meaningful product experiences that define future product categories. We are looking for talented designers, strategists, researchers, and creative technologists to join our group and bring new energy to our process. You should be ready to help at all stages of product design, from identifying unmet needs and discovering new design opportunities to developing visionary concepts and creatively applying emerging technologies to solve real user problems and create radically new experiences. Position Summary: Samsung Design Innovation Center is seeking a talented and highly motivated Industrial Designer to imagine, develop, and communicate the next generation of consumer products across Samsung's expanding device portfolio, with a particular focus on emerging product categories including wearable devices and future hardware experiences. This role is for a designer who combines strong Industrial Design fundamentals with a passion for exploring new creative possibilities enabled by Artificial Intelligence. You will work alongside senior design leadership and multidisciplinary teams at SDIC to explore how AI can amplify creativity, accelerate design exploration, and expand the way future products are conceived, visualized, and communicated. You will be expected to embrace AI-native Industrial Design as part of your everyday creative process - using emerging AI capabilities throughout ideation, concept exploration, visualization, storytelling, and iterative design development. We are not simply looking for a designer who uses AI to generate images. We are looking for someone who demonstrates strong design judgment and understands how to use AI as a creative partner to explore broader design possibilities and elevate the quality of the final design. The ideal candidate combines excellent Industrial Design craft with curiosity, experimentation, and a willingness to continuously learn. You should be comfortable exploring ambiguous opportunities, generating a wide range of ideas, developing compelling product concepts, and collaborating with diverse disciplines to bring those ideas to life. You will work closely with the Lead Industrial Designer and other competencies within SDIC, as well as Industrial Design teams in Korea, to develop future product concepts and explore new AI-native design methodologies. Through this collaboration, you will contribute to evolving how AI can augment the Industrial Design process while maintaining a high standard of design quality, craftsmanship, and human-centered thinking. We are interested in passionate and self-motivated individuals who are comfortable in a highly fluid environment. You will bring strong design talent, curiosity, experimentation, and a desire to continuously evolve your creative process. We will provide the multidisciplinary environme