Senior Product Designer
Shield AI is a U.S. defense-technology company developing mission-autonomy software and autonomous aircraft for military and allied operations.
Funding history
Investors
About Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI builds Hivemind autonomy software and V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft for operations in contested, GPS- and communications-denied environments. Its current site also presents Aechelon synthetic-reality simulation and Vision Systems detection and tracking products.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design end-to-end HMI systems for UAV ground control displays. You will translate complex requirements into intuitive safety-critical interfaces, create wireframes and prototypes in Figma, and design real-time telemetry, navigation, sensor fusion, and mission-planning experiences. You will conduct usability testing, apply human-factors principles, and maintain design-system components.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field
- 5 years of HMI or UX design experience
- Figma
- Component systems
- Prototyping
- Design systems
- Human factors
- Cognitive workload
- Situational awareness
- Real-time system interfaces
- Data visualization
- Cross-disciplinary engineering collaboration
Responsibilities
- Design HMI systems for UAV ground control station displays
- Translate system requirements into intuitive safety-critical interfaces
- Develop wireframes, user flows, mockups, and prototypes in Figma
- Collaborate with engineers, pilots, operators, developers, and human factors experts
- Apply human factors engineering principles
- Design real-time data visualization for telemetry, navigation, sensor fusion, and mission planning
- Conduct usability testing and design validation
- Maintain a Figma design system and component library
- Establish HMI and UX design best practices
Benefits
- Bonus
- Equity