UX Engineer

DPRAorporated•Norfolk, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Helping our clients achieve their goals starts with attracting and obtaining top talent. We look for highly innovative and bright individuals; give them the tools they need, then give them the freedom to do what they do best. We empower our employees to make the best of their opportunities in a rewarding and challenging environment. We have a passion for excellence. Our employees thrive on making a difference and generating results for our clients in a flexible environment that offers support and camaraderie. No matter where you are located throughout the globe, DPRA offers vast learning opportunities and a flexible work style to help our staff manage responsibilities and add balance to their lives. Along with a flexible workplace, DPRA offers a Total Rewards program that provides its employees with not only a competitive salary but also covers a wide variety of benefits and programs! If you are looking for a challenging position in an innovative company, then this is the position for you. DPRA is seeking a UX Engineer for fully remote, full-time role. This position is responsible for driving the end-to-end user experience strategy and execution for a large-scale DoD AI/ML platform. This role blends product management, UX strategy, and visual design leadership, ensuring platform capabilities are translated into intuitive, mission-aligned user experiences. Essential Job Duties and Functions: The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment requiring complex problem solving and cross-functional collaboration. This individual will work closely with platform architects, data science and data engineering leads, product manager(s), engineering teams, and DoD customers to translate technical capabilities into validated UX concepts, workflows, and mockups. Acts as a key member of the delivery team, ensuring UX/UI designs are aligned with project objectives, customer needs and operational constraints. Works with QA and DevOps to ensure delivered capabilities meet usability, performance, and quality standards. Leads customer engagement and validation efforts, including Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, usability testing, and iterative design reviews. Ensures designs are continuously vetted with stakeholders and evolve based on user feedback. Collaborates with the Client on the design of product—including data, AI\ML models, security compliance, customer organizational requirements and system architecture—to ensure user workflows align with technical capabilities and cross-functional requirements. Translates these architectures into user-centric design artifacts, mockups, and interaction models. Responsible for the creation of UI/UX design specifications, workflows, and early stage mockups to guide development teams. Establishes and maintains UX/UI standards, design systems, and best practices, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability. May develop high-level system interaction diagrams and user journey flows to support program design, development, testing, and documentation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Centered Design, Product Design, Interaction Design, or related field (or equivalent experience)
Minimum 5 years of experience performing similar functions on DoD or commercial programs/projects
Experience working on complex platforms or enterprise systems, preferably AI/ML or data-intensive environments
Demonstrated ability to translate technical architectures into user-centric workflows and designs
Strong experience facilitating customer workshops, Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, and usability testing
Proven ability to collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, and QA teams
Experience creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes (e.g., Figma or similar tools) into production UI
Ability to analyze user needs and data to define and document effective solutions
Strong communication skills with the ability to present to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to contribute across all phases of the Agile development lifecycle, with emphasis on design, planning, and validation
Ability to work directly with Functional Subject Matter Experts to define requirements and refine user interfaces
Willingness to travel as needed
Must be a US Citizen with an Active DoD security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting DoD AI/ML platforms, data platforms, or geospatial systems
Familiarity with Agile tools (e.g., Jira) and frameworks (Scrum, SAFe)
Experience in front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks) for effective collaboration with development teams (not a primary coding role)
Experience with AWS, GCP or other cloud platforms
Experience developing or contributing to design systems and UX governance frameworks
Certifications in Product Management, UX Design, or Agile methodologies (CSM, SAFe, etc.)
Other relevant Technical and Agile certifications (i.e. Certified Scrum Master, Microsoft (MCSD, MCSE) Certifications, SaFE Certifications, etc.)

Responsibilities

Driving the end-to-end user experience strategy and execution for a large-scale DoD AI/ML platform.
Translating platform capabilities into intuitive, mission-aligned user experiences.
Translating technical capabilities into validated UX concepts, workflows, and mockups.
Ensuring UX/UI designs are aligned with project objectives, customer needs and operational constraints.
Ensuring delivered capabilities meet usability, performance, and quality standards.
Leading customer engagement and validation efforts, including Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, usability testing, and iterative design reviews.
Ensuring designs are continuously vetted with stakeholders and evolve based on user feedback.
Collaborating with the Client on the design of product—including data, AI\ML models, security compliance, customer organizational requirements and system architecture—to ensure user workflows align with technical capabilities and cross-functional requirements.
Translating these architectures into user-centric design artifacts, mockups, and interaction models.
Responsible for the creation of UI/UX design specifications, workflows, and early stage mockups to guide development teams.
Establishing and maintaining UX/UI standards, design systems, and best practices, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and scalability.
Developing high-level system interaction diagrams and user journey flows to support program design, development, testing, and documentation.