UI/UX Engineer

Systems Planning and Analysis (SPA) is looking for a UI/UX Engineer to join the ORCA group and help build and improve modeling and data analysis software tools. This role connects creative visual design with technical implementation, spanning requirements through prototyping, front-end development, and product testing and documentation.

This onsite position is based in San Diego, CA. The pay range for this role is USD 110,000 - 140,000 per year.

What you will do

• Gather and validate requirements by viewing the problem space through the lens of users and stakeholders.
• Create wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes.
• Conceptualize, design, and implement user experiences with attention to human interaction.
• Develop designs across the product lifecycle, from discovery and defining the problem space through iteration on deployed products.
• Write clean, maintainable, responsive front-end code and implement designs using technologies such as HTML and C++/C#/Rust/Python or React.
• Analyze and quantify requirements, applying computer science, engineering, and mathematical principles to build and improve solutions, including enhancing existing software.
• Collaborate with other designers, product managers, and software engineers to define product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog.
• Thoroughly test and document software products.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or a relevant technical, scientific, or engineering field, plus 3+ years of professional experience in UI/UX design and front-end web development.
• Strong knowledge of modern JavaScript, CSS frameworks, and component-based libraries such as React.
• Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming, including design patterns, polymorphism, data structures, and algorithms.
• Experience delivering software development work, user-centered design, and web app projects.
• Strong visual and graphical design skills, with an ability to produce polished graphical user interfaces and visual assets that enhance product experience.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively in both written and verbal formats with diverse stakeholders.
• Strong organization and attention to detail, including the ability to manage multiple priorities independently.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Top Secret clearance with SCI access.

Technologies and tools

Work will involve JavaScript, CSS frameworks, React, HTML, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Sketch, InVision, Visio, Design Systems, Adobe Creative Suite, web services, SQL databases, and XML.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings accounts
• Retirement savings plans
• Life and disability insurance programs
• Programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work
• Opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs

Desired qualifications

• Experience with Web Services, SQL Databases, XML, C++/C#, Rust, Python, and React.
• Proficiency with Sketch, InVision, Visio, Design Systems, and Adobe Creative Suite.