Senior Product Designer

Therobotage; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a senior product designer to craft human-machine interfaces for ground control station software. You will shape displays, flows, and interaction patterns operators rely on to plan, command, and monitor autonomous aircraft under pressure.

This is a high-stakes robotics UX role, requiring clear state comprehension and collaboration with pilots, engineers, and human factors experts to ensure safe, efficient operations.

Qualifications

• Product design or HMI experience for complex technical systems.
• Strong prototyping and visual design ability for mission-critical interfaces.
• Comfort collaborating with operators, pilots, engineers, and human factors specialists.
• Ability to reason about safety, workload, and clarity under time pressure.

Responsibilities

• Design HMI systems for UAV ground control station displays.
• Turn complex autonomy and aircraft requirements into operator-facing interfaces.
• Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and Figma prototypes.
• Apply human factors principles around workload, usability, and situational awareness.

Skills

HMI design

Prototyping

Visual design

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

What the role actually is

Shield AI is hiring a senior product designer focused on human-machine interfaces for ground control station software. The role designs the displays, flows, and interaction patterns operators use to plan, command, and monitor autonomous aircraft.

This is a classic high-stakes robotics UX role. The designer has to make complex system state understandable under operational pressure, while working with pilots, systems engineers, software teams, and human factors experts.

What you would work on

• Design HMI systems for UAV ground control station displays
• Turn complex autonomy and aircraft requirements into operator-facing interfaces
• Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and Figma prototypes
• Apply human factors principles around workload, usability, and situational awareness

What they are asking for

• Product design or HMI experience for complex technical systems
• Strong prototyping and visual design ability for mission-critical interfaces
• Comfort collaborating with operators, pilots, engineers, and human factors specialists
• Ability to reason about safety, workload, and clarity under time pressure

Why this one is worth a look

Ground control design is where autonomy still has to answer to human judgment. The role is valuable because it deals directly with how operators understand, trust, and intervene in robotic systems when the cost of confusion is high.