SCI w Poly

Peraton•Laurel, MD

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Peraton is seeking a talented and skilled User Experience Designer to join our Cyber Intelligence team in Laurel, MD. As part of a collaborative, high-impact integrated product development team, you’ll work on next-generation cyber and AI/ML capabilities hosted on large-scale compute clusters and AWS Cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help shape innovative services that make a real difference. This position is ideal for individuals interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Requirements

An Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.
Requires a Bachelor's degree in relevant (e.g., Computer Science or related discipline) from an accredited college or university and eight (8) years' of relevant experience in User Experience Design.
A Master's degree in a relevant discipline may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, reducing the requirement to six (6) years of relevant experience.
In lieu of a Bachelor's Degree, an additional four (4) years of relevant experience may be substituted for a total of twelve (12) years.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Large Language Models (LLM), Agentic AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
Expertise in AWS Cloud Architecture design and development
Agile development experience with source code management practices and tools
Well-grounded in Linux fundamentals and knowledge in at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)
Knowledge of security and compliance best practices

Responsibilities

Leading the plan, design, and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems.
Establishing interactive conventions.
Assisting in gathering user requirements.
Mocking up user experiences.
Participating in trade-off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts.
Analyzing tool sets.
Creating screen mock-ups.
Helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies.
Applying visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.
Operating in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback.
Conducting User Experience research and optimization.
Creating final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
Taking a user-centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
Collaborating with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
Reviewing final implementation with front-end developers to ensure design standards are followed.
Analyzing and providing solutions for project life cycle design including interviewing customers, clearly articulating customer requirements to design team, creating visual designs/prototypes, presenting information to customers, and helping solve and clarify questions and problems.
Participating in several diverse engineering teams to conduct User Experience research and optimization.
Collaborating with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide recommendations to other Designers.