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Principal UX Engineer - Researcher/Designer

Northrop Grumman

$100,300 - $165,500
Aug 27, 2025
Aurora, CO, USA • Colorado Springs, CO, USA • El Segundo, CA, USA
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Northrop Grumman is seeking a Principal UX Engineer - Researcher/Designer to contribute to the design and research of human-centered systems, ensuring usability, consistency, and mission effectiveness for their products.

Requirements

  • Experience with user-centered design (UCD) principles, research methodologies, and usability testing, including user feedback events
  • Knowledge of user engagement processes with demonstrated ability to apply them effectively in programs to support user experience products and feedback gathering
  • Portfolio showcasing user-centered design solutions for web applications (attached/linked on application and/or resume)
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex requirements and user needs into intuitive and effective design solutions
  • Proficiency in design and prototyping tools (e.g., Axure, Lunacy, Adobe Suite, Lucid, Figma)
  • Demonstrated experience designing in an agile software development environment
  • Experience with contributions to Human Factors Analyses (including but not limited to: Task Analyses and Predictive Workload Analyses, Usability studies, Workload, and Situational Awareness surveys)

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to the design and research of human-centered systems.
  • Apply user experience methods to features, workflows, and system modules, ensuring usability, consistency, and mission effectiveness.
  • Plan and execute user research activities, create prototypes, and wireframes.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive and efficient solutions.
  • Contribute to style guide compliance usability studies, and agile development processes.
  • Perform UX research independently, UX design independently, or a combination of both, depending on the program needs.
  • Apply human factors principles to systems design.

Other

  • RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
  • CLEARANCE TYPE: Secret
  • TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
  • Ability to communicate, collaborate, and present effectively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, researchers, users, customers, and stakeholders
  • U.S. Citizenship is required for all positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions.