Echodyne offers the world’s first compact solid-state true beam-steering radar for a wide range of industries and applications. Our high-performance radars work in all weather and are designed for autonomous vehicles, uncrewed aircraft & drones, and security of borders, critical infrastructure, and smart cities. The company combines the patented technology of metamaterials with powerful software to create a radar sensor with unprecedented performance at commercial price points. Echodyne offers its radars to companies working in Automotive, Transportation, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Border Security, Smart Cities, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Airspace Management including Urban Air Mobility (UTM).
Contract Length - 6 months
ROLE OVERVIEWThis role is embedded with the core EchoWare team and maintains close coordination to ensure alignment with current capabilities, long-term plans, and evolving design standards. You will work at the intersection of product, engineering, solutions engineering and customers – translating user needs and business requirements into compelling experiences.
RESPONSIBILITIES- Create user flows, mockups, and low and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Collaborate with current UX designer to ensure alignment to overall product vision.
- Develop and iterate designs based on user feedback and stakeholder input.
- Ensure consistency with establish design systems, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards.
- Partner closely with development teams throughout implementation to ensure design quality and fidelity.
- Communicate design concepts and rationale clearly to cross-functional teams and leadership.
- Support and contribute to design system evolution and component libraries.
- 3+ years of user design experience in both mobile and web.
- Proficiency with using Figma as a design tool.
- Demonstrated experience supporting the iterative design process from end-to-end, including wire-frames, prototypes, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals.
- Strong communication skills, adept at customer interviewing and other methods of customer engagement.
- Experience creating and/or contributing to design systems.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Collaborative, detail-oriented, and customer-centric mindset.
Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations. Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.
WHAT WE OFFERThis is a non-exempt role.If your skills generally align but not perfectly, please apply anyway. There may be another role that’s a great fit for you!
We offer competitive compensation and benefits to our full-time, US-based employees, including:
- RSU (Restricted Stock Units)
- Generous Benefits:
- Fully-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums for you
- Choice of PPO or HDHP/HSA
- Virtual Care – 98Point6
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental Health coverage through Springhealth & Talkspace (Premera)
- Travel Assistance Insurance
- Company Paid Life Insurance
- Company Paid Short & Long Term Disability
- Flexible PTO (exempt) / 15 days per year (non-exempt)
- 401(k) match
- Pet Insurance
- Prepaid Legal Program
- Commuter Benefits
- Paid Company Holidays
All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected by law.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of user design experience in both mobile and web.
- Proficiency with using Figma as a design tool.
- Experience supporting iterative design process end-to-end (wireframes, prototypes, user testing, high-fidelity visuals).
- Strong communication skills, adept at customer interviewing and customer engagement.
- Experience creating and/or contributing to design systems.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful tradeoffs.
- Collaborative, detail-oriented, and customer-centric mindset.
- Willingness to identify U.S. citizenship/green card or asylum/refugee status for export-controlled information eligibility.
What We Do
Echodyne designs and builds advanced radar solutions that unlock new capabilities for intelligent systems and autonomous machines and shatter price-performance barriers for sensor arrays. Our combination of patented metamaterials electronically scanned array (MESA®) technology with powerful software ultimately means significantly greater situational awareness that increases safety and saves lives. Our first radar is the size of a paperback book, weighs less than bowling pin, draws less power than a light bulb, yet outperforms every comparable radar on the market. We are just getting started. Echodyne delivers commercial radar solutions for end users and integrators in Government and Defense, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Autonomous Vehicle markets globally. The company is based in Kirkland, Washington and backed by Bill Gates, NEA, Madrona Venture Group, Baillie Gifford, Vulcan Capital, Vanedge Capital, and Irongrey among others. Discover more at echodyne.com.
