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Senior User Experience (UX) Designer - Autonomous Systems

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Would you like to join a User Experience team that is constantly solving new and exciting design problems in the autonomous systems area e.g., automated driving, UAV and robotics?  

Join our cross-functional team and lead projects through the full design process, from early ideas and sketches, to wireframes and prototypes, and into active development until your pixel-perfect designs “go live” to delight our users across the globe. 

We’re dedicated to crafting clear and effective designs for technical software products that improve the world. You may be right for this role if you: 

  • Love working on complex problems and workflows 

  • Can work efficiently on your own but love to collaborate 

  • Enjoy driving the full range of design activities from concepting through final visual design 

  • Want to contribute to the design of applications supporting automated driving and autonomous systems

Our user experience team has over 100 passionate user experience professionals with experience in user research, usability testing and design.  As strategic business partners, we work closely with our product teams and contribute throughout the product development life cycle to develop new products, features, and enhance legacy products.   

Learn more about our UX team 

Responsibilities

As a Senior UX Designer, you will collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team to improve the user experience for MathWorks products and applications. You will follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems. 

  • Collaborate with development and marketing teams to design delightful,appropriate, and consistent solutions for the products supporting autonomous systems like automated driving, UAV, robotics, etc.

  • Work with cross-functional teams to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet user needs and project partner's vision 

  • Produce design ideas and collaborate with teams to determine which ideas should move forward into detailed design and eventually production, based on usability testing, standard methodologies, and technical input 

  • Help promote standard methodologies in design, usability, and accessibility within the design and engineering teams and across the company 

  • Research and showcase industry trends and the latest technologies across mobile, desktop, and Web

Minimum Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree and 6 years of professional work experience (or a master's degree and 3 years of professional work experience, or a PhD degree, or equivalent experience) is required.

Additional Qualifications

  • STEM Degree (e.g.,Aerospace engineering, Information Design, Computer Graphics, Human Computer Interaction, or other relevant degree)  

  • Portfolio available for viewing, demonstrating a history in software/Web design  

  • Proficiency with relevant design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch) 

  • Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly and translate those to UI representations 

  • Experience communicating sophisticated interaction design ideas with clarity and persuasion 

  • Desktop and Web application design experience 

  • Responsive and accessible design experience is a plus 

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MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,000 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.

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