User Experience Designer – AI/ML TS/SCI w Poly

Peraton; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized employee benefits

25 days PTO accrued annually

Attractive bonus plan

Job summary

Peraton is looking for a talented User Experience Designer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. This role emphasizes building innovative cloud solutions for national security. Applicants are expected to have strong experience in User Experience Design along with an active TS/SCI clearance.

The ideal candidate will lead design projects and work collaboratively within diverse engineering teams. Peraton offers excellent benefits including subsidized health coverage, PTO, and bonus eligibility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant experience in User Experience Design.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph required.
• Experience with LLM, Agentic AI, and RAG preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development activities for user experience.
• Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Create visual designs, storyboards, and interaction flows.

Skills

User Experience feedback

User Experience research

Agile development

Visual design

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Master's degree (substitutive for experience)

Tools

AWS Cloud

Linux

Scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl)

Job description

Responsibilities

Are you passionate about building cutting‑edge cloud solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast‑paced, mission‑driven environments? Peraton is seeking a talented and skilled User Experience Designer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. As part of a collaborative, high‑impact integrated product development team, you’ll work on next‑generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large‑scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you.

Job Description: Responsible for leading the plan, design, and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems. Responsible for establishing interactive conventions, assisting in gathering user requirements, mocking up user experiences, participating in trade‑off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts, analyzing tool sets, creating screen mock‑ups and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies. Applies visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.

User Experience, UX, user needs and product strategy requirements. Rapid prototype. Project life cycle design. User experience research and optimization.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

The User Experience Designer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Operate in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback.
• Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Create final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
• Take a user‑centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
• Review final implementation with front‑end developers to ensure design standards are followed.
• Analyze and provide solutions for project life cycle design including interviewing customers, clearly articulating customer requirements to design team, creating visual designs/prototypes, presenting information to customers, and helping solve and clarify questions and problems.
• Participate in several diverse engineering teams to conduct User Experience research and optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide recommendations to other Designers.

Position Requirements (Experience and Education):

• An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
• Requires a Bachelor's degree in relevant (e.g., Computer Science or related discipline) from an accredited college or university and eight (8) years' of relevant experience in User Experience Design. A Master's degree in a relevant discipline may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to six (6) years of relevant experience. In lieu of a Bachelor's Degree, an additional four (4) years of relevant experience may be substituted for a total of twelve (12) years.

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Exposed to Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG)
• Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
• Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
• Well‑grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
• Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

Benefits: Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees supporting this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap, and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

$135,000 - $216,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.