Human Centered Designer (26-119) with Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Own the Experience End-to-End
• Design interaction patterns for agentic AI: conversational flows, tool-call and reasoning visibility, human-in-the-loop confirmations, error and uncertainty states, and graceful handling of partial or long-running responses
• Create the flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that turn ambiguous problems into shippable interfaces
• Own and evolve a design system so the product stays consistent, accessible, and fast to extend
• Talk to ARPA-H users; understand their workflows, their goals, and where GRACE helps or gets in the way
• Run lightweight, high-velocity research: interviews, usability tests, and concept validation that fit a team that ships weekly, not quarterly
• Turn research into clear, prioritized insights the team can act on, and close the loop by measuring whether changes actually helped
• Design for Trust and Responsibility

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional experience in product design, UX design, or a closely related field, with a strong portfolio of shipped products
• Experience designing for AI, LLM, chat, or agentic products: streaming responses, citation and source display, tool-call visibility, and designing for uncertain or probabilistic output
• Demonstrated ownership across the full design process: research, interaction design, and visual design
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with fluency in a modern design tool (e.g., Figma) including components, prototyping, and design systems
• Hands-on user research experience: planning and running interviews and usability tests, and turning findings into decisions
• Proven experience shipping complex, interactive products in high-velocity environments where you owned the experience end-to-end
• Strong commitment to accessibility (WCAG / Section 508)
• Strong attention to detail and a high bar for quality; you care about how it looks, how it feels, and how it holds up in real use
• Clear communicator who gives and receives feedback well, works closely with engineers, and makes the people around them better
• Self-starter with a high bar and a high sense of urgency; you do not wait for perfectly scoped problems

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfort working close to implementation: reading the front end, understanding what React and Chainlit make easy or hard, and designing within real constraints
• Experience building or contributing to design systems at scale
• Experience designing productivity tools, research tools, or other complex information-dense products
• Track record in startup or early-stage environments: comfort with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and wearing multiple hats