
Website Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Job Description:
- New ideas are all around us, but only a few will change the world. That’s our focus at JPL. We ask the biggest questions, then search the universe for answers—literally. We build upon ideas that have guided generations, then share our discoveries to inspire generations to come. Your mission—your opportunity—is to seek out the answers that bring us one step closer. If you’re driven to discover, create, and inspire something that lasts a lifetime and beyond, you’re ready for JPL.
- Located in Pasadena, California, JPL has a campus-like environment situated on 177 acres in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and offers a work environment unlike any other: we inspire passion, foster innovation, build collaboration, and reward excellence.
Job Requirements:
- Identification of gaps in user needs and development opportunities
- Helping the team prioritize and define the development roadmap
- Communication of user research results to stakeholders and fellow designer/researchers in a consistent and clear manner
- Design, prototyping, validation and refinement of identified solutions
- Requirements discovery, refinement and validation through the identification and evaluation of new and existing use cases
- Prototyping and design of interfaces, interactions, and patterns for SSwE CAE tools
- Conducting user research on existing tools, workflows, behaviors, features and needs analysis
Qualification & Experience:
- Have a strong grasp of research methods and data analysis, both quantitative and qualitative.
- Excellent organizational, communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Storyboarding, wireframing, mockup and prototyping skills.
- Understanding of Agile Scrum practices and philosophies
- Experience with enterprise class software and systems development lifecycle tools such as Git, Jenkins, Arti factory, Docker, Jupyter, Cameo Systems Modeler.
- Experience with Open Model-Based Engineering Environment (MBEE)
- Familiarity with Web 2.0 technologies and approaches including microservices, REST, CSS, HTML.
- Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or related discipline with 6 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree in a related discipline with 4 years of relevant experience with 4 years; PH.D in a related discipline with 2 years of relevant experience. Education may be substituted with significant industry experience.
- Demonstrated understanding of UX research methods for enterprise tools
- An understanding of enterprise design best practices
- A portfolio of design projects showing a strong human-centered approach and based on research.
- Experience organizing and moderating both individual research sessions and group research.
Job Details:
Company: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Vacancy Type: Full Time
Job Location: Pasadena, CA, US
Application Deadline: N/A
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