UX Designer: Immersive VR Interfaces for Robotics

Walden Robotics, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual cash bonus

Equity

Insurance programs

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

Daily lunch

Job summary

Walden Robotics is hiring an experienced UX/Interface Designer in Cambridge, MA to design immersive VR-based interfaces and map end-to-end workflows across people, robots, and tools. You will own discovery, prototyping, and validation, collaborating closely with engineering and ops to ship high-quality interfaces.

The role emphasizes hands-on prototyping, research, and shaping our design culture as an early member of the team. A strong portfolio in data-rich or real-time experiences is 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.

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.

Skills

Interaction design

Systems thinking

User research

Ambiguity tolerance

Prototyping

HRI expertise

Portfolio clarity

Tools

Unity

Unreal

3D/XR tooling

Job description

Walden Robotics is hiring an experienced UX/Interface Designer in Cambridge, MA to design immersive VR-based interfaces and map end-to-end workflows across people, robots, and tools. You will own discovery, prototyping, and validation, collaborating closely with engineering and ops to ship high-quality interfaces.

The role emphasizes hands-on prototyping, research, and shaping our design culture as an early member of the team. A strong portfolio in data-rich or real-time experiences is required.