User Experience (UX) Engineer

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Department Summary

MITRE's User Experience, Visualization, and Decision Support department is on the hunt for a proactive engineer who can ingeniously design and develop user experiences to address our sponsor's unique challenges. We are looking for an innovative problem-solver who can not only comprehend and translate user needs but also act as a bridge between design and engineering, utilizing the latest technologies to deliver the ultimate user experience.

This is your chance to leverage your distinctive skills on a diverse array of significant projects aimed at tackling some of our nation's most daunting challenges. Our department prizes team spirit, creativity, technical enthusiasm, and a steadfast commitment to the end user.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will be expected to

• Lead and provide technical guidance to small multidisciplinary teams, including other User Experience Engineers.

• Collaborate closely with human factors engineers, UX designers, researchers, project leaders, and sponsors to create software prototypes using current front-end technologies and best practices.

• Advocate for the end-user, ensuring user-centered design principles are consistently applied throughout the software development cycle.

• Provide consulting guidance to MITRE teams and sponsors, analyzing software implementation, architecture, and performance.

• Lead the design and development of user interfaces for our software and web applications, incorporating user research and usability testing to gather insights into user needs and behaviors.

• Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas, while collaborating with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and product managers, to ensure our products meet user needs.

• Develop and maintain design systems and user interface guidelines, generating research and initiative proposals.

• Mentor junior UX engineers and designers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Basic Qualifications

• An advanced degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, HCI, UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field and 8+ years applicable software development experience.

• Must be a US citizen capable of obtaining and maintaining a US government clearance.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in UX design or a related role, with a proven track record in designing, developing, and prototyping user interfaces (UIs) using user-centered design principles.

• Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML, CSS, D3, JavaScript Frameworks such as Angular, Vue, React, and/or similar libraries.

• Expertise in design software such as Sketch, Adobe XD, or Figma.

• Experience with user research methods and usability testing.

• Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with excellent verbal and written communication abilities.

• A git repository or portfolio showcasing your UX design work, demonstrating your creativity and problem-solving skills.

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference given to qualified candidates holding an active clearance.

• A Master's degree is preferred.

• Experience with qualitative and quantitative UX research design, development, analysis, and presentation

• Advanced experience with visualization tools and libraries

• Experience conducting user interviews and requirements gathering

• Experience with game design principles and/or development

• Mentoring or tutoring experience

• Entrepreneurial, innovative spirit

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type

Hybrid

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