User Experience and Performance Spring Co-Op
Responsibilities
We work on exciting projects to solve hard problems at the intersection of engineering, design, and high-stakes scenarios such as: big data analytics, decision support tools, team collaboration systems, human-robot interaction, augmented reality, and contextual situation awareness tools in both the commercial and national security arenas. You will apply user-centered research, interaction, and visual design principles to create usable, engaging, modern, and intuitive interfaces for cutting-edge systems sponsored by the US Government, commercial customers, and internal R&D projects. Our users experience difficult challenges such as: high cognitive workload situations, high stakes tactical scenarios, complex data problems (including data visualization and overcoming cognitive bias), safety critical operations, and collaboration across distributed teams. The ideal candidate is an assertive self-starter, that can bring user-centered approaches to an engineering environment and engaging colleagues and building ideas in a team-centered environment.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- B.S., Masters, or formal training in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Design, Computer Science, Product Management, Data Visualization, or similar field
- Top-notch user research skills: contextual inquiry, knowledge elicitation, any other creative methods for gathering high-quality data from remote or infrequent user interaction
- Demonstrated capability and attention to detail in UX, IX, UI, or Data Visualization design in documents, reports, mockups, screen designs, and research artifacts
- Good written, visual, and spoken communication skills
- Familiarity with Agile development and Atlassian’s agile suite in particular
Preferred Qualifications:
- A portfolio or case study of work showcasing UX, IX, UI, or Data Visualization design and concept validation – please share a link to work samples in your application
- UX Research - Comfort and confidence leading user research sessions, coming prepared with a plan and being resilient to rapid scheduling / focus changes, delivering artifacts that support software development decisions
- IX Design – ability to apply their skillset to new subject matter areas and ability to incorporate new knowledge into documented best practices with the intention to improve future work and capture a knowledge base of relevant subject matter areas, building design artifacts as probes for user research questions
- UI Design - Creation of scalable Sketch libraries design toolkits for product lines
- Experience working closely and iteratively with engineering and development teams