BCI Futures Designer & Researcher

University of Utah; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 80,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Utah is seeking a research-driven designer to imagine next-generation human interaction with brain–computer interfaces. This role blends speculative vision with hands‑on prototyping to turn concepts into working prototypes.

You will build prototypes, define how people communicate with intelligent, context‑aware systems, and map information architecture to capture, connect, retrieve, and fade data.

Qualifications

• Equivalency: 1 year of higher education may substitute for 1 year of related work experience.
• Open to AI/ML Engineer levels III–V with defined experience requirements.
• Location: Campus, Full Time or Part Time; Pay Rate Range provided.

Responsibilities

• Envision next‑generation interaction paradigms for a future where BCIs are mainstream, and backtrack to what can be built today.
• Build working software prototypes that make these concepts tangible, testable, and convincing.
• Design how people communicate intent to an intelligent, context‑aware system, and how that system understands, organizes, and acts on it.
• Design the information architecture behind such a system: how information is captured, connected, retrieved, and faded when appropriate.
• Explore capabilities that BCIs enable beyond current devices.
• Consider neural input realities: uncertainty, speed, and non‑screen feedback.
• Conduct design research to understand how people think, remember, and interact with technology.
• Assess societal implications and factor them into design decisions.
• Produce concepts, prototypes, and narratives that communicate the vision clearly.
• Develop a roadmap linking long-term vision to near-term buildable steps.

Skills

AI interaction design

Context-aware systems

Storytelling

Information architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

The University of Utah is seeking a research-driven designer to imagine next-generation human interaction with brain–computer interfaces. This role blends speculative vision with hands‑on prototyping to turn concepts into working prototypes.

You will build prototypes, define how people communicate with intelligent, context‑aware systems, and map information architecture to capture, connect, retrieve, and fade data.