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

Peraton; West Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO

Enhanced benefits

Bonus plan eligibility

Job summary

Peraton in Laurel, MD is seeking a highly skilled User Experience Designer to lead the UX for national-security devices, tools and systems. You will establish interaction standards, gather customer requirements, and mock up experiences for rapid prototyping with engineering teams.

You will apply visualization expertise to create intuitive interfaces and collaborate with stakeholders across multiple engineering teams in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline with eight years of relevant UX design experience; Master's reduces 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Lead plan, design and development activities to create user experience for devices, tools and systems.
• Establish interactive conventions and gather user requirements.
• Mock up user experiences and participate in trade-off discussions with development teams.
• Analyze tool sets, create screen mock-ups and help customers imagine new interactive techniques.
• Apply visualization and screen design expertise to deliver compelling UX.

Skills

UX research

Agile development

Prototyping

Visual design

User-centered design

Scripting (Python/Ruby/Perl)

Linux fundamentals

Security/compliance

LLM/RAG experience

AWS Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

AWS

Job description

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.

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 skilledUser Experience Designerto join our Cyber Intelligence team inLaurel, 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.