UI/UX Designer Intern

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories • Pullman, WA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL) is seeking a creative User Experience Designer Intern to help develop software interfaces for products that protect, control, monitor, and analyze the power grid. The intern will contribute to designing innovative ways to display and interact with power-system information, applying a user-centered design philosophy to address users’ needs. The role involves collaboration with UX Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Developers, as well as flexibility to support multiple projects and learn new skills.

The intern will design software products from end to end, apply UX and visual-design principles, participate in research and validation, and develop moderate expertise in at least one SEL-specific problem domain. Work includes solving complex UX problems, creating intuitive workflows, presenting complex information through accessible data visualizations, and developing information architecture for complex systems. The intern works under the general supervision of Design Leads and follows established procedures.

This position is located in Pullman, Washington. SEL describes the role as part-time during the school year, with flexible schedules arranged around classes and studying. Pay is $22.50–$29.00 per hour, based on the internship role and the student’s year in school. SEL notes that interns may have access to wellness resources, community connection, and retirement-savings opportunities; interns are also frequently hired for full-time roles after graduation, though this is not guaranteed.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a BA/BS degree in interaction, graphic or visual communications design, human-computer interaction, or a related field.
• Basic experience with graphic design, interaction design, and display design principles.
• Basic experience with user experience design methodologies and techniques.
• Basic understanding of user experience research methods.
• Strong writing, documentation, and speaking skills.
• Ability to learn new skills, assume new responsibilities, and learn sophisticated problem domains.
• Demonstrable experience designing, prototyping, and testing user interfaces for web, mobile, or desktop applications, and/or hardware and embedded hardware displays.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with UX design in sophisticated problem domains.
• Experience with UX design in a business-to-business environment.
• Experience in an Enterprise UX environment.
• Moderate understanding of user experience research methods, including participating in research and integrating its results.

Responsibilities

• Design software products end to end with a focus on user experience.
• Collaborate with UX Designers, User Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Developers in an open environment of critique and communication.
• Apply user experience design and validation principles and techniques.
• Apply visual design and communications principles and techniques.
• Develop moderate expertise in at least one SEL-specific problem domain.
• Participate in conducting user experience research and validation.
• Design solutions to complex problems requiring UX creativity and ingenuity.
• Work under the general supervision of Design Leads and follow established procedures.
• Work on multiple projects and assist the team where needed.

Benefits

• Competitive pay.
• Superior benefits.
• Flexible schedules arranged around classes and studying during the school year.
• Wellness resources.
• Community connection.
• Opportunities to kickstart retirement savings.
• Interns are frequently hired for full-time roles upon graduation, though this is not guaranteed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern