Product Designer, Defense

The role

The Product Designer will own the end to end design of Defense products, including real-time operator interfaces and enterprise web platforms. This role involves conducting primary research with warfighters and engineers to design systems for command, control, and autonomy simulation.

What you will do

• Own the design of one or more Defense products end to end
• Conduct primary research, ride-alongs, and exercises with warfighters and partners
• Design real-time edge interfaces for contested comms and limited compute
• Design the trust model for agentic autonomy
• Design enterprise tools used to build, simulate, validate, and ship autonomy
• Extend the Defense design system
• Turn one-off program deliveries into repeatable products
• Represent design at demos, program reviews, and industry events

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product design experience across at least two meaningfully different environments
• Bachelors' degree in design or relevant field
• Track record shipping products end to end
• Strong research instincts
• A portfolio showing judgment on information density, decision UI, and multi-user workflows
• Comfort learning and designing for technically complex systems
• Strong engineer collaboration
• Clear communication
• Proficiency with modern prototyping tools
• U.S. citizenship required
• Must hold or be eligible for a U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI target)

Nice to have

• Active DoD Secret/Top Secret/TS-SCI clearance
• Experience with defense, intelligence, maritime, aerospace, or first-responder users
• Background in C2, air traffic, cockpit/EFB, geospatial, or real-time simulation interfaces
• Experience with developer platforms, MLOps, data labeling, or test/observability tools
• Design experience for edge/constrained-compute environments
• Experience shaping trust/approval patterns for AI copilots or agentic systems
• Prior military, intelligence, or fleet operational service
• Experience helping build a design practice from the ground up

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision
• life/disability
• 401(k) match
• learning/wellness stipends
• PTO

Before you apply

• U.S. citizenship required
• Must hold or be eligible for a U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI target); Applied will sponsor

About the company

Applied Intuition, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company creating digital infrastructure for physical AI. It services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries.