Design Systems Engineer, HMI

Responsibilities

• Research and synthesize HMI design standards, human factors guidelines, and accessibility requirements relevant to Revel's target industries (aerospace, energy, nuclear, manufacturing).
• Define and document Revel's design system: color usage philosophy, semantic indicator patterns, typography, iconography, spatial layout, and interaction conventions.
• Establish guidelines for how the product conveys state, alarms, warnings, faults, and nominal conditions.
• Audit existing product interfaces against human factors best practices and accessibility standards, and drive remediation of gaps.
• Design and specify component-level behavior: how individual UI elements communicate meaning across visual channels (color, shape, iconography, text, motion, position).
• Develop guidelines for configurable elements (e.g., customer color conventions) that preserve safety semantics while accommodating industry-specific norms.
• Collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers to implement the design system and ensure fidelity from specification to shipped product.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in human factors engineering, HMI design, design systems, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to translate standards and research into actionable design specifications and component libraries.
• Familiarity with one or more HMI or accessibility standards such as ISA-101, NUREG-0700, WCAG 2.1, MIL-STD-1472, or NASA-STD-3001.
• Strong understanding of color perception, color vision deficiency, and multi-channel information encoding in interface design.
• Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system (tokens, components, patterns, documentation).
• Proficiency with design tools (e.g., Figma) and the ability to specify components precisely enough for engineering implementation.
• Excellent written communication—you'll be writing guidelines, specifications, and rationale documents that the team builds from.
• Comfort working across disciplines: you'll partner with product designers, frontend engineers, and domain experts daily.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in aerospace, defense, nuclear, energy, or process control industries.
• Familiarity with high-performance HMI principles (Hollifield, ASM Consortium guidelines).
• Experience with control room or operational environment design.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML/CSS/JS, React) or experience working within design-to-code workflows.
• Experience conducting or applying findings from usability studies in safety-critical contexts.
• Graduate degree in human factors, cognitive engineering, systems engineering, or a related field.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Benefits

Competitive salary, substantial equity, and significant personal growth opportunities.

Schedule

Collaborative, ambitious, and technically challenging environment.

Pay

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