Defense Product Designer: Real-Time Autonomy UIs

Therobotage; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is hiring a product designer for its defense product surface, spanning real-time command, control, and situational awareness interfaces as well as enterprise web tools used by defense engineering teams and customers.

This high-context autonomy design role helps operators, engineers, and partners understand system status, required human approval, and how autonomy moves from bespoke programs into repeatable products.

Qualifications

• Experience in product, tools, interaction, or systems design for complex technical products
• Strong visual and interaction design craft with ability to learn defense context quickly
• Experience conducting primary research with operators, analysts, engineers, and partners
• Ability to prototype clearly and collaborate with PM and engineering teams
• Willingness to travel to bases, ranges, customer sites, and field contexts

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for one or more defense products, from research through shipped UI
• Design operator interfaces for tablets, ground stations, shipboard systems, and airborne environments
• Build approval and escalation patterns for agentic autonomy where humans stay meaningfully in the loop
• Extend a defense design system across real-time and enterprise workflows
• Support demos, program reviews, and customer-facing design conversations

Skills

Product design

Interaction design

Systems design

Visual design

Job description

Applied Intuition is hiring a product designer for its defense product surface, spanning real-time command, control, and situational awareness interfaces as well as enterprise web tools used by defense engineering teams and customers.

This high-context autonomy design role helps operators, engineers, and partners understand system status, required human approval, and how autonomy moves from bespoke programs into repeatable products.