UX Designer - Engineering Development Group Job at MathWorks in Natick

Overview

MathWorks has a hybrid work model that enables staff members to split their time between office and home. The hybrid model provides the advantage of having both in-person time with colleagues and flexible at-home life optimizations. Learn more at https://www.mathworks.com/company/jobs/resources/applying-and-interviewing.html#onboarding.

The Engineering Development Group (EDG) is a key leadership development program in MathWorks, enabling candidates from a variety of technical backgrounds to develop and demonstrate their skills for a successful and rewarding career.

As a team member in the EDG for User Experience Designers program, you will enhance your leadership and technical skills, and work on projects with the MathWorks UX Design team. You will gain experience with MathWorks products and user workflows through direct interactions with customers. You will receive mentoring and coaching to prepare for a UX Designer role within the MathWorks UX organization. UX Designers at MathWorks lead projects through the full design process, from early ideas and sketches to wireframes and prototypes, and into active development until pixel-perfect designs go live to delight our users across the globe.

MathWorks nurtures growth, appreciates diversity, encourages initiative, values teamwork, shares success, and rewards excellence.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to high impact UX Design projects with teams across Development organizations to strengthen your technical and professional skills and help advance your career.
• Work with project partners to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet user needs and the project partners’ vision.
• Help promote standard methodologies in design, usability, and accessibility within the design and engineering teams and across the company.
• Provide technical support to MathWorks customers for highly complex technical issues in MATLAB, Simulink, and other MathWorks products.
• Specialize and develop technical skills in your domain and MathWorks product suite.
• Develop and demonstrate leadership skills through opportunities to coach and mentor others, and contribute to, initiate or lead process improvement projects.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in a STEM discipline with HCI, Design, or similar specialization
• Experience with relevant design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe, Axure)
• Portfolio available for viewing, highlighting multiple projects and your direct contributions linked in your resume
• Experience crafting user experiences in technical/engineering domains
• Programming experience in any programming language (MATLAB, R, Python, C++, Java, JS, etc.)
• A bachelor\'s degree and 3 years of professional work experience (or a master\'s degree, or equivalent experience) is required.
• Experience with user experience

In this program

The EDG for User Experience Designers program provides opportunities to enhance leadership and technical skills and to work on projects with the UX Design team.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development