Senior UX Researcher - AI Platform & Developer Tools

United States Digital Space LLC; Washington; Hybrid; USD 293,000 - 397,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a senior UX Researcher for its Platform team, focusing on developers and API/developer tools built around Claude. You will lead studies, blend qualitative and quantitative methods, and deliver insights that steer product decisions.

This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration with engineers, product managers, and leaders, and building research tooling to keep pace with fast-moving platform initiatives.

Qualifications

• Industry UX research experience independently scoping, designing, running, and reporting end-to-end studies.
• Mixed-methods expertise: interviewing technical users well, and designing and analyzing surveys rigorously.
• A technical background: software engineering experience or API/developer tooling research, or deep technical product research.
• Hands-on use of AI in your own research.

Responsibilities

• Work with Platform leaders to understand what they most need to know about the people building on Claude, decide what is and isn't worth studying, and own that agenda.
• Design and run the research yourself using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Study the full range of people the platform serves: developers, the teams and companies building products on it, and the people who administer and buy it.
• Communicate findings to product managers, designers, and engineers and follow them through to product decisions, while building the shared understanding of users that lets teams make good calls on their own.
• Build the tools and infrastructure that let research keep pace with the platform, using Claude heavily and inventing methods where the existing ones don't fit.

Skills

UX research

Mixed-methods

Technical background

AI in research

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Claude AI

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a senior UX Researcher for its Platform team, focusing on developers and API/developer tools built around Claude. You will lead studies, blend qualitative and quantitative methods, and deliver insights that steer product decisions.

This role emphasizes autonomy, collaboration with engineers, product managers, and leaders, and building research tooling to keep pace with fast-moving platform initiatives.