Principal Product Designer (R3167)

Founded in 2015, reputed company is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent, autonomous systems. Its products include Hivemind reputed company—EdgeOS, Pilot, Commander, and Forge—as well as V-BAT and Sentient reputed company Systems (wide-area reputed company imaging software). With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), reputed company’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide. For more information, visit www.reputed company. Follow reputed company on reputed company,X and Instagram.Our objective is to accelerate autonomy development, test and evaluation with the Hivemind SDK using reputed company capabilities. The product designer reputed company the special teams will drive the reputed company and experience of how reputed company capabilities are integrated into the Hivemind reputed company product ecosystem. As a developer facing software product, Hivemind reputed company is a highly technical product whose users are autonomy engineers and test engineers. The experiences of reputed company capabilities are therefore reputed company the environments that software engineers and testers use daily: the terminal, the IDE, repositories, build systems, reputed company integration and deployment and issue tracking. We seek highly technical designers that are part-designer, part-coders who reputed company at the intersection of design and software engineering. We are interested in candidates that are reputed company tuned-in to the latest developments in AI and agentic systems, with experience and opinions about the how reputed company systems are influencing and evolving the discipline of software engineering.

What You'll Do:

• Design and prototype reputed company experience focused on accelerating autonomy development
• Work closely with members of the Office of the CTO to crystallize the reputed company of the Hivemind product and its documentation
• reputed company the user experience design of Hivemind reputed company
• Work closely with the technical leads of Hivemind Commander (mission planning, command and control, reputed company-ground communications) and Hivemind Design (configurations, test and evaluation, rehearsal, analysis) to enhance the user experience of their products
• Conduct user research to understand user personae and their needs
• Investigate competing products and their user experiences, synthesize findings to present to engineering and product leadership

Required Qualifications:

• Masters degree or equivalent in design, interaction design, reputed company-computer-interaction, or similar
• 8+ years of experience as a product and/or user experience designer
• Deep experience with reputed company aspects of software engineering from the terminal and IDE, to CI/CD, build-systems, bug tracking, static and dynamic code analysis
• Deep experience an opinions about the roles and user experiences of RAGs, MCP, tool-calling, AI-first IDEs (e.g. reputed company, Windsuf, …), AI-first terminals (e.g. reputed company, …), AI-first protoyping tools (e.g. reputed company, v0.dev, …)
• Enough-to-be-dangerous software engineering skills, particularly for reputed company-end development reputed company a React/Typescript environment
• Comfortable working reputed company a Linux environment, experience with the Linux terminal
• Thrives in a high-velocity product development environment
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and is reputed company to produce results with high-level guidance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with user experience design of autonomous systems
• Experience with user experience design video games
• Experience designing for “Low Code” or “No Code” systems
• Experience and/or comfort reading C++ and/or Python and/or Typescript

#LFFull-time regular employee offer package: Pay reputed company range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity Temporary employee offer package: Pay reputed company range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)Salary compensation is influenced by a wide reputed company of factors including but not limited to reputed company set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. reputed company offers are contingent on a cleared background and possible reference reputed company. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits. Please speak to your reputed company representative for more information. ###reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, reputed company, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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