Senior/Principal UX Engineer - Designer/Researcher (T03/T04)

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available

CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Description

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history.

The Payload and Ground Systems organization within the Northrop Grumman Space Systems pushes the boundaries of innovation, redefines engineering capabilities, and drives advances in various sciences. Our team is chartered by providing the skills, innovative technologies to develop, design, produce and sustain optimized product lines across the sector while providing a decisive advantage to the warfighter. Come be a part of our mission!

We are seeking either a Principal UX Engineer - Designer/Researcher (T03) or Senior Principal UX Engineer - Designer/Researcher (T04) to join our team. In this role, you will contribute to the design and research of human-centered systems. You will apply user experience methods to features, workflows, and system modules, ensuring usability, consistency, and mission effectiveness. You will plan and execute user research activities, create prototypes, and wireframes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and efficient solutions. You will work both independently and as part of a UX team, contributing to style guide compliance usability studies, and agile development processes. You will have the ability to perform UX research independently, UX design independently, or a combination of both, depending on the program needs. This includes planning and executing user studies, developing wireframes and prototypes and applying human factors principles to systems design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to support agile development, ensuring compliance with style guides, and deliver user-centered solutions that enhance mission outcomes. The ideal candidate has strong technically grounding in human factors/UX methodologies and thrives on translating user needs into actionable design deliverables.

This position can be located in Redondo Beach, CA, Aurora CO, or Colorado Springs, CO.

This requisition may be filled at a higher grade based on qualifications listed below.

Basic Qualifications:

• Principal UX Engineer - Designer/Researcher (T03): 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in STEM; 3 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree in STEM; 1 year of relevant experience with a PhD in STEM

• Senior Principal UX Engineer - Designer/Researcher (T04): 8 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree in STEM; 6 years of relevant experience with a Master's degree in STEM; 4 years of relevant experience with a PhD in STEM

• Active Secret clearance required at the time of application

• Experience with user-centered design (UCD) principles, research methodologies, and usability testing, including user feedback events

• Portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for web applications

• Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements and user needs into intuitive and effective design solutions

• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (e.g., Axure, Lunacy, Adobe Suite, Lucid, Figma)

• Ability to communicate, collaborate, and present effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, researchers, users, customers, and stakeholders

• Demonstrated experience designing in an agile software development environment

• Experience with contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys)

• Experience with following, building and maintaining a style guide and design system

• Experience with visual design (e.g. typography, symbology, layout) and UX/UI development methods (e.g. personas, heuristic evaluations)

• Ability to travel ~10% of the time (conducting any user engagement visits or usability te