UXE Feature Designer

ALTEN Technology USA•Auburn Hills, MI

About The Position

The UXE Feature Designer is accountable for the feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within vehicle and infotainment systems. The role focuses on feedback, messaging, auditory signals, intuitiveness, functional grouping, and feature logic. It involves developing and managing system logic and ensuring specifications align with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications, and graphical assets. The designer creates user interactions for features and provides clear, robust specifications to supporting teams and suppliers. Feature designs and logic must be coherent and aligned with other documents in the HMI domain. The role also participates in validating feature logic and works directly with HMI validation teams to confirm implementations meet requirements.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
Five years of experience in a design role or related field.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field.
Experience with user-centered design and requirements development.
Understanding of electrical engineering systems and development processes.
Experience with Photoshop, Visio, Doors, and Adobe XD.
Eight years of relevant experience in the field.
Good organizational, teamwork, and problem-solving skills, and ability to meet deadlines amid changing vehicle designs.
Detail orientation, flexibility, and ability to prioritize and facilitate alignment globally.
Understanding of benchmarking competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics, including heuristic and objective measurements.
Experience with vehicle life-cycle design and development.

Responsibilities

Create clear and robust specifications.
Participate in meetings to present new design proposals, share HMI issues related to HMI features, present benchmarking data for comparison with client execution, and present user-test results and provide HMI direction.
Propose solutions to improve user interaction with features and achieve higher targets.
Lead change-request activities.
Support the User Test team in creating tests to validate new design solutions.
Support the validation team during validation phases.
Help open and resolve validation issues.
Support the Performance Lead during vehicle assessments.
Validate feature logic and work with HMI validation teams to verify that implementations align with requirements.
Ensure feature designs and logic are coherent and aligned with other HMI-domain documents.