Northrop Grumman Australia · 1 day ago
User Experience Engineer/Designer - Level 2 or 3
United States-Alabama-Huntsville
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$88K/yr - $131K/yr
2+ years expNorthrop Grumman is a leading aerospace and defense technology company, and they are seeking a User Experience Engineer/Designer to enhance user experience for their MASC-F program. The role involves driving UI/UX improvements, managing project integrations, and collaborating with various teams to ensure user-centered design principles are applied throughout the development process.
Defense & Space
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Drive enhancements to MASC-F products to improve the user experience of our tools and interfaces
Manage projects and work product integrations across the Software Development, Systems Engineering, User Engagement teams, and customer stakeholder teams
Be responsible for the overall user interface modernization for MASC-F products, tools, and utilities
Work with agile scrum teams to verify acceptance criteria related to interface modernization and usability
Identify and maintain user personas to represent key segments of our vast user base to identify UI/UX improvements and understand likely impacts to changes in the user interfaces of MASC-F tools and utilities
Processing user feedback to form mid-fidelity wireframes to produce high-fidelity mockups to be used by developers
Work with the Systems Engineering team to help define development requirements
Analyzing competitor applications to identify potential UI/UX improvements
Work alongside customer stakeholders to select UI/UX features to be worked, gather feedback on potential design updates, and maintain an agile backlog of potential UI/UX enhancements and modernizations for future consideration
Proactively identify areas where UI/UX support is needed and insert themselves into relevant meetings, discussions, and projects to provide expertise and guidance
As the sole UI/UX expert on the team, drive UI/UX decisions and ensure that user-centered design principles are integrated into all aspects of the program
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 2 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related experience
2+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision
Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction
Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
Demonstrate strong collaboration skills
Full time onsite
A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 2 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 0 years of experience
3+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision
Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction
Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
Demonstrate strong collaboration skills
Full time onsite
A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance
Preferred
Familiar with Scaled Agile Framework
Experience with Java and user interfaces
Familiar with Jira - issue tracking and agile project management, or similar tool
Multi-core and multi-threaded programming
Familiarity with MDA Sensors and missile defense systems
A current active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Savings plan
Company paid holidays
Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Company
Northrop Grumman Australia
Northrop Grumman Australia is the Australia-based arm of Northrop Grumman Corporation and committed to generating long-term prosperity, investing in advanced Research & Development, sovereign and exportable Intellectual Property, high-quality jobs and long-term technology leadership across the Commonwealth.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase