Senior UI​/UX Designer; MTSD

• Mission Driven Research (MDR) primarily operates in the federal government services domain and our primary asset is our employee base. As a result, Mission Driven Research employees are rewarded accordingly with competitive salaries, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Mission Driven Research (MDR) is here to deliver technical excellence with a mission-driven mindset - going the extra mile for our customers, growing our people personally and professionally, and giving generously to our communities. We're looking for a skilled, AI-native Senior UI/UX designer who will join our Multimode Threat Simulation Development (MTSD) team in Huntsville, Alabama and become part of our rapidly growing defense technology company operating in missile defense, UAS/counter-UAS, and intelligence markets.

You will be part of an elite software development team poised to outbuild teams several times our size through principled adoption of emerging toolsets, and backed by a culture of deep respect for our employees and shared mission.

Here’s what you’ll be doing
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You will design, build, and ship intuitive, high-performance user interfaces as an integral part of a team solving two fiendishly hard, still unsolved problems:

• Build a variable-fidelity, engineering-level defense simulation for multimode countermeasure development: flexible enough to answer many kinds of questions, but highly performant at the specific tasks it's pointed at. People have been trying to build this for >40 years, and the graveyard is full of sim frameworks that ended up flexible, fast, or fit for purpose, but never all three. We think we can actually do it.
• Go AI-native without creating a bigger mess to clean up. Agentic coding and design tools accelerate the pace of development. But wielded indiscriminately, they end up accruing a mountain of tech debt. What's rare is a process where agentic tools turn into a sustained increase in development velocity with high quality. This requires human oversight and human skill at every point that matters, documentation that stays true, a codebase that people actually understand, and guardrails that keep one bad agent run from torpedoing weeks of work.
  
  If you've used these tools seriously, you know exactly which headaches we mean. We intend to avoid them, not suffer them.

As part of this process, you will build the human face of the simulation framework: the interfaces, visualizations, and workflows that engineers and analysts use to drive it. You'll work with in an AI-native workflow that moves at agent speed, guided by your skill and understanding. You'll spend quality time with our customers and end users - engineers, analysts, and operators - because deeply understanding many stakeholders' needs is where great design starts.

You'll be responsible for user experience design worthy of engineering-level modeling, natural language interfaces that make AI a first-class part of the product, and blending AI-accelerated design with the judgment that delivers interfaces people love to use. This position is considered a senior position. You will need to be able to demonstrate an exceptional degree of technical ingenuity, intellectual curiosity, aptitude for building (as opposed to simply analyzing or theorizing), and clear communication.

You will be a self-starter and able to demonstrate a history of seeking out, identifying, and capitalizing on learning opportunities. In short, we’re looking for someone with the talent and grit overmatch to build at agent speed without sacrificing even a pinch of beauty, simplicity, or intuitiveness.

Here’s what you’ll need: You must have a bachelor's degree at minimum, in a design, human‑computer interaction, scientific, or engineering field. Also, we’re looking for…