Location
Moffett Field, CA 94035
Role Overview
The UI/UX engineer supports the analysis, documentation, and delivery of user-centered software solutions for the NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP). You will partner with cross-functional stakeholders, development teams, and leadership to ensure user needs are clearly defined, documented, and delivered in an Agile environment. The ideal candidate combines UI/UX design research, rapid prototyping, and end-to-end quality assurance to improve user workflows across scientific and archival applications.
About the Project
The NASA Life Sciences Portal (NLSP) is a deployed system that serves as the gateway for discovering and accessing archive data from investigations supported by NASA’s Human Research Program (HRP). HRP conducts research and develops technologies to help ensure humans can travel safely and productively in space. The platform leverages evidence from data collected from astronauts, animals, and plants over many decades. This data is stored in key repositories accessible through the NLSP, including the Life Sciences Data Archive (LSDA), the Lifetime Surveillance of Astronaut Health (LSAH), and Standard Measures (SM) repositories.
Required Qualifications
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Human/Computer Interaction, Digital Media/Web design, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) with 4+ years of professional experience.
- UI/UX Foundations: Strong command of usability, accessibility, visual hierarchy, consistency, and user-centered design.
- Prototyping & Research Tooling: Advanced proficiency with UI/UX prototyping tools such as Figma and Axure RP, plus standard collaboration suites including Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft Office.
- Quality Assurance & Testing: Hands-on experience creating test plans, writing test cases, executing functional tests, and managing bug lifecycles in Jira.
- Stakeholder Outreach & Communication: Ability to recruit research participants, conduct user interviews, and clearly communicate complex technical and design concepts to multidisciplinary teams.
- Eligibility: Must be a US Citizen or Green Card Holder.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting government, scientific, or research-heavy data platforms.
- Hands-on background or familiarity with web application development.
- Exposure to or practical experience integrating AI and LLM workflows into software applications.
Compensation
Base Pay Range (San Francisco Bay Area): $146,600.00 - $219,900.00. The offered rate will be based on the position, contract affordability, the selected candidate’s working location, knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and internal parity.
Additional Compensation
KBR may offer bonuses, commissions, or other forms of compensation to certain job titles or levels per internal policy or contractual designation. Additional compensation may include sign-on bonus, relocation benefits, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.
Benefits
KBR offers competitive lifestyle benefits that could include a 401K plan with company match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, AD&D, flexible spending account, disability, paid time off, or a flexible work schedule. The company supports career advancement through professional training and development.
Company Notes
Trinzic is the future independent company expected to launch through the planned spin-off of KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business in January 2027. Candidates who join KBR’s Mission Technology Solutions business before the spin-off will transition to Trinzic when the separation is complete and will not need to reapply for employment.
Equal Opportunity
KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
