UX/UI Engineer

About the role

The department is seeking a UX/UI Engineer who is passionate about designing and developing user-centered software solutions to address our sponsors' unique challenges. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of engineers, designers, researchers, and stakeholders to frame complex problems, understand mission needs, and translate user insights into intuitive, scalable, and effective solutions. You will engage directly with sponsors and stakeholders through workshops, design reviews, and iterative feedback sessions to ensure solutions align with user needs and mission objectives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with human factors engineers, UX designers, researchers, project leaders, and sponsors to design and develop user-centered software solutions using modern front-end technologies and engineering best practices.
• Advocate for the end-user, ensuring user-centered design principles are consistently applied throughout the software development cycle.
• Provide technical guidance to MITRE teams and sponsors, analyzing software implementation, architecture, and application performance.
• Design and develop user interfaces for software and web applications, incorporating user research, usability testing, and stakeholder feedback to improve user effectiveness and mission outcomes.
• Lead portions of UX and front-end development efforts, ensuring solutions are maintainable, accessible, scalable, and aligned with project objectives.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to less experienced engineers on UX engineering, front-end development, and user-centered design best practices.
• Develop wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to effectively communicate design ideas, while collaborating with cross-functional teams, including software engineers and product managers, to ensure our products meet user needs.
• Develop and maintain design systems, UI standards, and reusable front-end components that promote consistency, accessibility, and scalability across applications.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend approaches that improve user experience and mission effectiveness.
• Present design recommendations and technical solutions to project teams, sponsors, and leadership.

Qualifications

• Requires 4+ years of related experience with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or similar or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Experience applying modern software engineering practices including Git-based source control, peer code reviews, Agile development methodologies, automated testing, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience developing modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and contemporary frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, or similar technologies.
• Experience developing accessible web applications that align with WCAG and Section 508 accessibility standards.
• Demonstrated experience using UX design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, or equivalent platforms.
• Demonstrated portfolio or the ability to showcase your UX design work, demonstrating your creativity and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, learn, and apply new technologies to solve complex technical challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts, design rationale, and implementation approaches to multidisciplinary teams, sponsors, and stakeholders.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively with colleagues.
• A high level desire to help our nation solve its most critical challenges.