UX Designer

Walden Robotics; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual cash bonus

Company equity

Insurance programs

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics is seeking a hands-on UX designer to shape immersive VR interfaces that help humans collaborate with robots in real time. You will own the design from foundational research to prototyping and validation, crafting experiences across immersive spatial surfaces and fleet-management tools.

You'll thrive in ambiguity, wear multiple hats, and raise the craft bar as an early member of a growing team. Strong prototyping and HRI intuition are essential.

Qualifications

• Deep interaction and visual craft demonstrated in complex, data-rich or real-time experiences.
• Strong systems and service thinking across multi-touchpoint journeys.
• Comfort leading discovery and usability testing and turning findings into decisions.
• Thrives in ambiguity, wears multiple hats, ships solutions with high autonomy.
• Bias toward prototyping (in Figma, lo-fi mockups, code) to learn fast.
• Expertise or interest in human factors and human-robot interaction (latency, presence, fatigue).

Responsibilities

• Design the immersive VR-based interface to understand robot actions and direct it with confidence.
• Own end-to-end service design across people, robots, and tools for seamless experiences.
• Collaborate with engineering and ops to translate designs into deployable interfaces with quality.
• Run discovery and usability testing with operations teams and iterate based on findings.
• Help lay foundations of design practice, including craft, design system, standards, and culture.

Skills

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Discovery & usability testing

Autonomy

Prototyping

HRI familiarity

Tools

Unity

Unreal

3D/XR design tools

Job description

Walden's general-purpose robots do useful work alongside people today, and they get better by practicing in the real world.

In this role you will work closely with users to understand their needs, and you will design interfaces that make complex, real-time work feel intuitive. You will own the design from foundational research to prototyping to validation. The surfaces range from immersive spatial interfaces to fleet management applications and internal operational tooling.

This is a scrappy, high-ownership role for someone who wants to wear multiple hats, set a high craft bar, and help shape our design culture as an early hire on a growing team. We're looking for a builder at heart: someone who is happiest making things, sweats the details, and who holds a high bar for quality.

Core Responsibilities

• Design the immersive VR-based interface used to understand what a robot is doing and direct it with confidence and comfort.
• Own end-to-end service design: map how work flows across people, robots, and tools, and design the connective tissue needed for a seamless experience.
• Collaborate with our engineering and ops teams to bring interfaces to life and deploy them with quality.
• Run discovery and usability testing with our operations team, and iterate quickly on what you learn.
• Help lay the foundations of our design practice—craft, design system, standards, and culture as one of the earliest members of a growing team.

Required Qualifications

• Deep interaction and visual craft, with a portfolio showing clarity and usability in complex, data-rich, or real-time experiences.
• Strong systems and service thinking, with an ability to design a coherent journey across multiple touchpoints and handoffs.
• Comfort running your own discovery and usability testing, and turning findings into design decisions.
• A track record of thriving in ambiguity, wearing multiple hats, and moving from vague problem to shipped solution with a high level of autonomy.
• A bias toward prototyping (in Figma, low-fi mockups, code, etc.) to learn and iterate quickly.
• Expertise or interest in human factors and human-robot interaction (HRI): latency, presence, situational awareness, and operator trust and fatigue.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing for VR, AR, or other spatial/3D interfaces, with an understanding of the interaction, comfort, and ergonomic realities of head-mounted displays.
• Experience designing for robotics or gaming.
• Familiarity with Unity, Unreal, or other 3D/XR design tooling.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems.
• Comfort using AI/agentic tools to accelerate and improve your work.

Walden Robotics offers a competitive total compensation program, including salary, annual cash bonus, company equity, company-subsidized insurance programs, 401(k) with company match, flexible PTO, daily lunch, and other benefits. The pay ranges noted on our posts are for salary only.

Walden Robotics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [e-mail].

Walden Robotics participates in E-Verify. If you receive an offer of employment from Walden, you will need to go through the E-Verify process of digital verification of your employment authorization documents as provided on the Form I-9. Participation in E-Verify does not limit your right to work and verification will only be completed after you become an employee with Walden Robotics.

At Walden Robotics, we envision a world where general-purpose robots dramatically improve the quality of life for all people—supporting us at home, at work, in factories, on farms, and beyond. To accomplish this, we are building a team of exceptional professionals who combine world-class technical skills with creative vision, grounded in humility and collaboration.