Senior User Experience ResearcherActive$52K–$62K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Anduril’s Air Defense team builds autonomous robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky. At a time when air superiority can no longer be taken for granted, we provide critical force protection capabilities to support the service member operators.

What you'll do

  • With rigorous data and user insights, contribute to the direction and: decision-making for Air Defense product and program strategy.

  • Conduct and lead UX research such as service blueprints, contextual inquiry,: in-field rapid ethnography, focus groups, observations, workshops, surveys, and usability testing.

  • Use storytelling to inspire and align partners and key stakeholders.

  • Identify and drive forward ideas and recommendations to improve product(s): based off of actionable research insights.

  • Operationalize ways to consolidate and share research insights, including: ways to communicate quickly and efficiently, synthesize insights into research repositories, create workflows to work more powerfully with internal stakeholders.

  • Play an influential role in shaping the end-to-end experiences for critical operator workflows.

What they're looking for

  • M.S. or Ph.D. in Psychology, Human Computer Interaction, Anthropology,: Statistics, or other related area of study.
  • Active Clearance: An active security clearance is helpful, but not required.
  • Group facilitation: Can effectively lead co-creation, planning, and discovery workshops with cross functional stakeholders.
  • Comfortable defining UX research capabilities in a fast-paced start-up: environment. Able to draw from a broad toolkit to integrate research into existing and future product roadmaps.
  • Programmatic support: Opinionated about research operations and efforts to increase efficiency and improve decision making.
  • Is a good teammate: Demonstrated proactiveness in helping to shape team culture and mentorship participation.
  • Hardware and/or Human Factors experience: Experience with development and research for hardware and service design; ergonomics and/or support development of military standard systems
  • Quantitative research skills: Experience applying a variety of research methodologies to drive data-driven conversations and decision making including scaled surveys, max-diff, and using various programming language to analyze data.