UX Product Design Intern - Winter 2027

The role

You will work alongside designers, Product Managers, and Engineers to create intuitive experiences for autonomous systems. You will contribute to projects across Web and Mobile by mapping user journeys, creating wireframes, and building prototypes.

What you will do

• Contribute to interfaces for autonomous flying robots
• Investigate challenges involving remote hardware sensing, 3D spatial awareness, and AI-driven missions
• Turn early ideas into flows, wireframes, and prototypes
• Support research, usability studies, and on-site customer visits
• Synthesize observations and bring ground truth back to the team
• Explain design choices and improve solutions with cross-functional partners
• Create high-quality interfaces and interactive prototypes
• Participate in critiques
• Document design decisions
• Contribute to design-system patterns and team practices

Required qualifications

• Portfolio or Work Samples demonstrating design process and problem solving
• Developing foundation in interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and user-centered problem solving
• Proficiency with tools such as Figma
• Ability to explain thinking and work constructively with teammates
• Interest in exploring how AI can support design research, prototyping, and storytelling
• Currently pursuing or recently completed a degree, certificate, or focused training in product design, interaction design, HCI, human factors, or a related field, or equivalent skills

Nice to have

• Prior experience in robotics, AI, hardware, mapping, or navigation

About the company

Skydio is the leading US drone company and the world leader in autonomous flight. The team combines expertise in artificial intelligence, hardware and software product development, and customer obsession.