Mission Autonomy Product Designer — Lead & Scale

Anduril Industries; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 154,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive benefits

Health coverage

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Designer to own the vision for unified command and control of hundreds of autonomous vehicles across air, land, sea, and subsurface domains. You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and customers to craft operator-centric experiences and scale workflows across platforms.

The role emphasizes safety, high craft, and rigorous prototyping, with on-site fieldwork and close customer interaction to validate designs before delivery.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design, UX, or HCI with high craft.
• Autonomy to drive feature- and system-level work.
• Expertise in visual and interaction design for complex technical workflows.
• Systems thinking to map journeys across user types.
• Strong prototyping skills for decision clarity.
• Able to communicate design rationale across teams.
• Eligible for U.S. TS clearance with SCI eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Mission Autonomy designer to shape experiences from discovery to delivery.
• Spend time on-site with soldiers to build deep user empathy and test hypotheses.
• Inspire development with narratives, journey maps, user workflows, high-fidelity mockups, and thorough docs.
• Turn ambiguous design challenges into clear interfaces that operators can learn quickly.
• Partner with engineering and product to define delivery timelines and prioritize features.
• Identify opportunities for strategic reuse across Anduril's interfaces and extend the design system.
• Contribute to the central design team through critiques and mentoring.

Skills

5+ years design

Design autonomy

Visual design

Systems thinking

Prototyping

Communication

Tools

Design systems

Prototyping tools

UX research methods

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Product Designer to own the vision for unified command and control of hundreds of autonomous vehicles across air, land, sea, and subsurface domains. You will collaborate with engineers, PMs, and customers to craft operator-centric experiences and scale workflows across platforms.

The role emphasizes safety, high craft, and rigorous prototyping, with on-site fieldwork and close customer interaction to validate designs before delivery.