Senior User Experience (UX) Researcher - Radar Systems

MathWorks; Telangana; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff to split time between office and home. The team focuses on UX for radar systems, including sensor fusion and phased array concepts, guiding research from understanding users to testing concepts and launches.

As a UX Researcher, you will collaborate with engineers and product teams to study AI-enabled design workflows, improve trust, transparency, and overall user experiences for scientific software used by researchers.

Qualifications

• Experience with user research methods including interviews, surveys and usability tests.
• Degree requirements include bachelor's, master's, or PhD in a STEM field or equivalent experience.
• Ability to work with engineers and product teams on AI-enabled design workflows.

Responsibilities

• Identify user research methods to guide design directions based on project needs.
• Conduct research to identify user pains and inform product strategy.
• Advocate for technical users and translate feedback into design decisions.
• Execute qualitative and quantitative studies (interviews, surveys, usability tests, card sorting).
• Study interactions with AI tools to improve trust, transparency, and UX.
• Collaborate to interpret findings and contribute to design documents.

Skills

Research methods

Qualitative analysis

Quantitative analysis

AI tools knowledge

Human-AI interaction

Collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Master's degree in STEM

PhD degree or equivalent experience

Tools

UserZoom

OptimalWorkshop

Morae

Miro

MATLAB

Python

C++

R

JavaScript

GitHub

Job description

Job Summary

<p>MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn More: https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.</p>

Would you like to join a User Experience team that is constantly solving new and exciting design problems inRadar systems area e.g., Sensor fusion and tracking, Phased array antenna, etc?

Join our cross-functional team and steer projects through the full user research process, from understanding our users and their needs, to testing concepts and prototypes, through launch and monitoring solutions in the market.

We're dedicated to crafting clear and effective user experiences for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you are:

• Energized by talking to customers and love tackling exciting problems
• Passionate about the user experience and want to join a dynamic UX team that is constantly solving new and exciting problems
• Interested in collaborating with engineers to shape how AI can augment design workflows
• Interested in being a core member of the development team that builds products that make the world a better place
• Interested in improving Radar systems, Phased array, and Sensor fusion and tracking workflows for scientists and engineers

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate user experience professionals with experience in user research, usability testing and design. As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.

Learn more about our UX department

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates inclusivity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

As a UX Researcher, you will collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for MathWorks products and applications. You will follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems.

• Identify which user research methods to use to answer questions about users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals and constraints
• Conduct user research, identify user pains, and analyze user workflows to impact strategy and product direction
• Act as an advocate for our technical users
• Execute a variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods such as, but not limited to, user interviews, surveys, usability testing, and card sorting
• Conduct research to understand how users interact with AI tools and identify opportunities to improve trust, transparency, control, and overall user experience
• Help the teams interpret and understand user feedback and provide recommendations for design decisions based on that feedback
• Contribute to requirements and collaborate on design documents

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

• STEM Degree (e.g., Aerospace engineering, Electronics and Communication engineering, Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science)
• Experience with relevant research and collaboration tools (e.g., UserZoom, OptimalWorkshop, Morae, Miro)
• Knowledge of generative AI tools, prompt engineering, and human-AI interaction principles, including model limitations such as hallucinations and bias.
• Demonstrated responsible judgment in determining when AI should automate and where human control matters, and in translating evidence into product requirements.
• Experience with a variety of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
• Knowledge of MATLAB, other programming languages (Python, C++, R, or JS), or GitHub is a plus
• Ability to collaborate effectively with software engineers, product managers, and customer-facing engineers.