User Experience Engineer/Designer - Level 2 or 3

Northrop Grumman•Huntsville, AL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

At Northrop Grumman, our employees have incredible opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact people's lives around the world today, and for generations to come. Our pioneering and inventive spirit has enabled us to be at the forefront of many technological advancements in our nation's history - from the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean, to stealth bombers, to landing on the moon. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage and a pioneering spirit to join forces to invent the future, and have fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible. Our employees are not only part of history, they're making history. Northrop Grumman Space Systems has an exciting career opportunity for a User Experience Engineer/Designer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Huntsville, AL. Position Overview: The selected User Experience Engineer/Designer will provide support for the MASC-F (Modeling and Simulation - Framework) program. Essential Functions: Drive enhancements to MASC-F products to improve the user experience of our tools and interfaces Manage projects and work product integrations across the Software Development, Systems Engineering, User Engagement teams, and customer stakeholder teams Be responsible for the overall user interface modernization for MASC-F products, tools, and utilities. Work with agile scrum teams to verify acceptance criteria related to interface modernization and usability Identify and maintain user personas to represent key segments of our vast user base to identify UI/UX improvements and understand likely impacts to changes in the user interfaces of MASC-F tools and utilities Processing user feedback to form mid-fidelity wireframes to produce high-fidelity mockups to be used by developers. Work with the Systems Engineering team to help define development requirements Analyzing competitor applications to identify potential UI/UX improvements Work alongside customer stakeholders to select UI/UX features to be worked, gather feedback on potential design updates, and maintain an agile backlog of potential UI/UX enhancements and modernizations for future consideration Proactively identify areas where UI/UX support is needed and insert themselves into relevant meetings, discussions, and projects to provide expertise and guidance As the sole UI/UX expert on the team, drive UI/UX decisions and ensure that user-centered design principles are integrated into all aspects of the program The selected candidate should thrive in a fast-paced work environment with high expectations, significantly diverse assignments, and collaborative/team settings across all levels. Limited travel may be required. This requisition may be filled at either a Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer level.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 2 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 0 years of related experience.
2+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision.
Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction.
Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
Demonstrate strong collaboration skills
Full time onsite
A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.
Bachelor's Degree in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) discipline preferred from an accredited university and 5 years of related experience, or a Master's Degree in a STEM discipline and 2 years of related experience, or a PhD in a STEM discipline and 0 years of experience.
3+ Years experience in design tools such as Sketch, Figma, Balsamiq, Adobe XD, or InVision.
Understanding of user-centered design principles and human-computer interaction.
Experience in front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
Experience with Agile, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment.
Demonstrate strong collaboration skills
Full time onsite
Full time onsite
A current active in-scope U.S. Government DoD Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Familiar with Scaled Agile Framework
Experience with Java and user interfaces
Familiar with Jira - issue tracking and agile project management, or similar tool
Multi-core and multi-threaded programming
Familiarity with MDA Sensors and missile defense systems
A current active U.S. Government DoD Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

Drive enhancements to MASC-F products to improve the user experience of our tools and interfaces
Manage projects and work product integrations across the Software Development, Systems Engineering, User Engagement teams, and customer stakeholder teams
Be responsible for the overall user interface modernization for MASC-F products, tools, and utilities.
Work with agile scrum teams to verify acceptance criteria related to interface modernization and usability
Identify and maintain user personas to represent key segments of our vast user base to identify UI/UX improvements and understand likely impacts to changes in the user interfaces of MASC-F tools and utilities
Processing user feedback to form mid-fidelity wireframes to produce high-fidelity mockups to be used by developers.
Work with the Systems Engineering team to help define development requirements
Analyzing competitor applications to identify potential UI/UX improvements
Work alongside customer stakeholders to select UI/UX features to be worked, gather feedback on potential design updates, and maintain an agile backlog of potential UI/UX enhancements and modernizations for future consideration
Proactively identify areas where UI/UX support is needed and insert themselves into relevant meetings, discussions, and projects to provide expertise and guidance
As the sole UI/UX expert on the team, drive UI/UX decisions and ensure that user-centered design principles are integrated into all aspects of the program