Automotive UX Designer

The role

The UXE Feature Designer is accountable for the feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within vehicle and infotainment systems. This role involves designing user interaction for features and providing specifications to supporting teams and suppliers.

What you will do

• Accountable for feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within vehicle and infotainment systems.
• Focus on feedback, messaging, auditory signals, intuitiveness, functional grouping and feature logic.
• Develop and manage system logic and ensure specification alignment.
• Design user interaction of features and provide specifications to teams and suppliers.
• Ensure design of each feature and logic is coherent and aligned with HMI domain documents.
• Validate feature logic and work with HMI validation teams.
• Participate in meetings to present design proposals, HMI issues, benchmarking data, and user test results.
• Propose solutions to improve user interaction.
• Lead change request activities.
• Support User Test and validation teams during validation phases and vehicle assessments.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields
• 5 years of experience in design role or related field

Nice to have

• Master's degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields
• Experience with user centered design and requirements development
• Understanding of electrical engineering systems and development processes
• Experience with Photoshop, Visio, Doors, Adobe XD
• Eight years of relevant experience in the field
• Good organizational, teamwork and problem solving skills, ability to meet deadlines amongst changing vehicle designs
• Detail oriented, flexible and has the ability to prioritize and facilitate alignments globally
• Understanding of the benchmarking of competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics; which includes heuristic and objective measurements
• Experience with vehicle life cycle design and development

Benefits

• Mentorship
• Career growth opportunities
• Comprehensive benefits

Before you apply

• All candidates selected will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening

About the company

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company with 3,000+ experts across North America. It is part of the global ALTEN Group which has 57,000+ engineers in 30 countries.