User Experience Designer – AI/ML TS/SCI w Poly
About The Position
Are you passionate about building cutting-edge cloud solutions that support national security? Do you thrive in fast-paced, mission-driven environments? 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. Interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? If so, this is the position for you.
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
- Responsible for leading the plan, design, and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems.
- Responsible for 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 and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies.
- Applies visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.
- Operate in an agile development environment requiring the delivery of User Experience feedback.
- Conduct User Experience research and optimization.
- Create final visual designs, storyboards, interaction flows, and interface guidelines.
- Take a user-centered approach in crafting design solutions that meet both user needs and product strategy requirements.
- Collaborate with Product Owners to rapidly prototype and iterate on multiple design solutions.
- Review final implementation with front-end developers to ensure design standards are followed.
- Analyze and provide 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.
- Participate in several diverse engineering teams to conduct User Experience research and optimization.
- Collaborate with stakeholders within various customer bases to provide recommendations to other Designers.
Benefits
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
