UX Designer

Walden Robotics•Cambridge, MA

3d•$198,750 - $265,000

About The Position

Walden Robotics is hiring an early, high-ownership UX Designer to create interfaces for general-purpose robots working alongside people. The role involves working closely with users to understand their needs and designing intuitive interfaces for complex, real-time work. The designer will own work from foundational research through prototyping and validation across immersive spatial interfaces, fleet management applications, and internal operational tools. This is a scrappy, multifaceted role suited to a hands-on builder who sets a high bar for craft and quality and wants to help shape the design culture of a growing team. The role partners with users, engineering, and operations to map workflows across people, robots, and tools; deliver and deploy interfaces; test them with operations teams; and establish design practice foundations.

Requirements

Demonstrated interaction and visual design craft, with a portfolio showing clarity and usability in complex, data-rich, or real-time experiences.
Strong systems and service thinking, with the ability to design coherent journeys across multiple touchpoints and handoffs.
Ability to independently run discovery and usability testing and translate findings into design decisions.
A track record of thriving in ambiguity, taking on multiple responsibilities, and independently moving from an unclear problem to a shipped solution.
A bias toward prototyping in tools such as Figma, low-fidelity mockups, or code to learn and iterate quickly.
Expertise or interest in human factors and human-robot interaction, including latency, presence, situational awareness, operator trust, and fatigue.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience designing VR, AR, or other spatial/3D interfaces, with understanding of interaction, comfort, and ergonomic considerations for head-mounted displays.
Experience designing for robotics or gaming.
Familiarity with Unity, Unreal, or other 3D/XR design tools.
Experience building and maintaining design systems.
Comfort using AI or agentic tools to accelerate and improve work.

Responsibilities

Design the immersive VR-based interface used to understand robot behavior and direct robots with confidence and comfort.
Own end-to-end service design by mapping work across people, robots, and tools and designing the connections needed for a seamless experience.
Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to build and deploy interfaces with quality.
Conduct discovery and usability testing with the operations team and iterate based on findings.
Help establish the design practice, including craft, design systems, standards, and culture.