User Experience (UX) Engineer
Company: The MITRE Corporation
Location: Bedford
Posted on: May 8, 2024
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Job Description:
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enterprise transformation. We're making a difference every
day-working for a safer, healthier, and more secure nation and
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benefits, exceptional professional development opportunities, and a
culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion,
flexibility, collaboration, and career growth. If this sounds like
the choice you want to make, then choose MITRE-and make a
difference with us.
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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