Senior Product Designer, Mission Autonomy

Anduril Industries • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company focused on transforming military capabilities with advanced technology. The Product Design team acts as a crucial link across Anduril's software ecosystem, ensuring that products and workflows are scalable and effective across various platforms, mission types, and domains. They collaborate with engineers, product managers, and customers to create user experiences that foster operator trust and enhance capacity, with a strong emphasis on safety, reducing cognitive load, and direct customer feedback. As a designer on the Lattice Mission Autonomy team, you will be responsible for the design vision for the unified command and control of numerous autonomous vehicles. This role encompasses fleet management, mission planning, live execution, autonomous collaboration, and generative AI, shaping how the military manages robots at scale across air, ground, surface, and subsurface domains.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI, with a proven ability to execute high-craft, technically informed solutions.
• Demonstrated autonomy in design execution with the ability to independently drive feature-level and system-level work, navigating complex ambiguities with sound judgment.
• Deep expertise in visual and interaction design with proven ability to design complex technical workflows where precision, clarity, and attention to detail are critical; portfolio demonstrating elegant solutions and high craft quality.
• Systems thinking mindset with ability to map user journeys across multiple user types and operational contexts.
• Strong prototyping skills to drive clarity in decision-making.
• Ability to communicate the “why” behind design decisions; work demonstrating having navigated complex stakeholder requirements across engineering, product, and business teams.
• No prior defense experience necessary – we are looking for designers who can bring diverse perspectives to hard problems.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance with SCI eligibility.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing for technical operator-focused software in domains such as aviation, autonomous systems, robotics, industrial control systems, logistics, or similar complex operational contexts.
• Familiarity with workflows involving planning, execution, monitoring, or debrief of autonomous or distributed systems.
• Track record of delivering high-quality design work in fast-paced, mission-critical environments with shifting priorities and ambiguity.
• Experience helping mature a product from early development to operational readiness.
• Experience working within established design systems while contributing thoughtful extensions for domain-specific needs.
• Experience leading user research sessions including customer discovery, usability testing, and synthesis of complex feedback loops.
• Facilitation skills to lead workshops, guide cross-functional alignment, and strategic decision-making.
• Familiarity with designing for constrained or high-stakes / safety critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Mission Autonomy team's designer to shape experiences from discovery to delivery, maturing capabilities for fielded use and expanding into new workflows as programs launch.
• Spend time on-site with soldiers and subject matter experts to build deep user empathy, understand pain points, and test design hypotheses through workshops, field observations, and iterative prototyping.
• Inspire development with strong product narratives, journey maps, user workflows, high-fidelity mockups, and rigorous documentation.
• Turn ambiguous design challenges and technically complex software into polished, clear interfaces that operators can pick up with ease.
• Partner with engineering and product to define delivery timelines, optimizing for getting critical functionality into operators' hands.
• Identify opportunities for strategic reuse across Anduril's existing interfaces — leveraging and extending the design system to meet the unique requirements of operation at scale.
• Contribute to the central design team function by participating in design critiques, mentoring peers, and sharing best practices across specialties.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed