Product Designer Defense
Applied Intuition is a physical-AI company that provides software platforms for developing, validating, deploying, and operating intelligent vehicles and machines.
About Applied Intuition
Founded in 2017, Applied Intuition builds physical-AI tooling and infrastructure, a Vehicle OS, and a Self-Driving System for automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining, agriculture, and robotics applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own defense product design from research through shipped UI. You will conduct research with operators and partners, design real-time interfaces and enterprise autonomy tools, create approval patterns for agentic autonomy, extend the design system, and represent design at reviews and events.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product design experience across at least two different environments
- Bachelor's degree in design or a relevant field
- Experience shipping products from research through launch and iteration
- User research skills
- Experience designing complex technical systems
- Collaboration skills with engineers and technical leads
- Communication skills for design briefs and leadership presentations
- Proficiency with modern prototyping tools
- U.S. citizenship
- Eligibility for a U.S. security clearance
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end design for Defense products
- Conduct primary research with warfighters and partners
- Design real-time operator interfaces for constrained environments
- Design approval and escalation patterns for agentic autonomy
- Design enterprise tools for building, simulating, validating, and shipping autonomy
- Extend the Defense design system
- Turn one-off program deliveries into repeatable products
- Represent design at demos, program reviews, and industry events
- Travel up to 25% to bases, ranges, and customer sites
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- 401k retirement benefits with employer match
- Learning stipend
- Wellness stipend
- Paid time off
- Security-clearance sponsorship