User Experience Engineer/Designer

Job Description

Job Description

WE ARE ARCARITHM , and we are changing the world!

If you are ready to grow your career and change the world with us, then join the Arcarithm team!

We are located in beautiful, downtown Huntsville, AL, one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S.! At Arcarithm, we cultivate and foster an environment of integrity, open communication, work life balance, and career development. We are committed to investing in our employees by offering comprehensive health insurance options, a generous 401K plan, competitive salaries, continuous career growth opportunities, flexible schedules including remote work, mentoring and performance incentives.

Arcarithm is currently seeking top talent in the areas of full stack software development, artificial intelligence, optimization, and data analytics. You will work in a dynamic and challenging environment alongside our customers which include Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA on cutting edge technologies including machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, big data analytics, and more!

We are excited to continue to change and improve the world through innovation and technology! Contact us today to hear more about Arcarithm and all we offer!

Job Title:User Experience Engineer/Designer

Job Location: Huntsville, Alabama

Must have an active and transferable DoD security clearance with current investigation at the required level. Must be able to maintain the required clearance

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelor degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or related field and 3+ years of experience or 0 years with a graduate degree. For non computer science major, prefer comp-sci minor.
• 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).

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