UXEFeature Designer

SEGULA Technologies; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

SEGULA Technologies in Auburn Hills, MI, seeks a UXE Feature Designer Lead to own the usability and coherence of vehicle and infotainment interfaces. You will shape interactions, messaging, and feature logic to align with customer objectives and engineering specifications.

You will deliver robust specifications to engineering teams and external suppliers, participate in feature validation, and guide cross-functional reviews to ensure consistent HMI experiences across platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, or related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in a design role or related domain.
• Master’s degree preferred for advanced responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Specification Development: Publish clear HMI specifications and feature logic documents.
• Interaction Improvement: Propose solutions to enhance usability and meet performance targets.
• Change Management: Lead change requests across feature lifecycles with cross-functional teams.
• Design Presentations: Present proposals, lead reviews, and communicate test results.
• Benchmarking & Analysis: Compare against industry usability standards.
• Testing & Validation Support: Design tests, assist in validation, log issues, and support vehicle assessments.

Skills

HMI design

User-centered design

Interaction design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field

Master’s degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Adobe XD

Photoshop

Visio

IBM DOORS

Job description

Role Summary

The UXE Feature Designer Lead is accountable for the overall feedback, intuitiveness, and usability of user interfaces within vehicle and infotainment systems. Focusing on interaction logic, messaging, auditory signals, and functional grouping, you will drive the robust development of system logic and ensure specifications align with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications, and graphical assets.

In this role, you will design feature interactions and deliver clear, robust specifications to supporting engineering teams and external suppliers, ensuring all feature designs remain coherent across the Human-Machine Interface (HMI) domain. Additionally, you will participate in feature logic validation and collaborate directly with HMI validation teams to verify that final implementations meet all requirements.

Key Responsibilities & Job DutiesCore Specification & Design

• Specification Development: Create, maintain, and publish clear, robust HMI specifications and feature logic documents.
• Interaction Improvement: Propose innovative interaction solutions to improve overall usability, enhance customer satisfaction, and meet performance targets.
• Change Management: Lead change request activities across feature lifecycles and ensure alignment across cross-functional teams.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Meetings

• Design Presentations: Present new design proposals, lead reviews on HMI feature issues, and communicate user test results to provide strategic HMI direction.
• Benchmarking & Analysis: Present competitive benchmarking data comparing execution against industry-wide automotive usability standards.
• Testing & Validation Support:
  • Partner with the User Testing team to design tests validating new interaction concepts.
  • Support validation teams during initial and ongoing validation phases.
  • Assist in logging, tracking, and resolving validation issues.
  • Support the Performance Lead during vehicle assessments and field evaluations.

Basic Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
• Experience: 3–5 years of experience in a design role or related domain.

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Master’s degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
• Industry & Technical Experience:
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in user-centered design and requirements engineering.
  • Strong understanding of electrical engineering systems and full vehicle lifecycle development processes.
  • Hands-on experience with industry-standard tools (e.g., Adobe XD, Photoshop, Visio, IBM DOORS).
  • Demonstrated background in benchmarking competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics using both heuristic and objective measurements.
• Soft Skills & Execution:
  • Strong organizational, teamwork, and problem-solving skills with a proven track record of meeting deadlines amidst changing vehicle designs.
  • Detail-oriented and flexible, with the ability to prioritize tasks and facilitate alignment across global, multi-site teams.

SEGULA Technologies is a global engineering group, boosting the competitiveness of all major industrial sectors: automotive, aerospace, energy, rail, naval, life sciences, and telecoms. With a presence in more than 30 countries and 140 locations worldwide, the Group prioritizes close relationships with its clients, driven by the expertise of its 15,000 employees. As a leading engineering player putting innovation at the heart of its strategy, SEGULA Technologies manages large-scale projects, ranging from initial studies to industrialization and production. SEGULA TECHNOLOGIES is dedicated to gender balance and diversity, recognizing and recruiting talent of all backgrounds.