This role requires US citizenship and the ability to travel frequently within the United States and occasionally to the United Kingdom.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead customer delivery engagements: Partner directly with enterprise clients to translate business and technical needs into actionable design solutions that deliver measurable value.
- Conduct discovery and research: Plan and lead workshops, interviews, and contextual research to deeply understand user workflows and align stakeholders around shared goals.
- Design for delivery: Create pragmatic artefacts such as wireframes, prototypes, and specifications that accelerate implementation and maintain clarity through technical delivery.
- Collaborate across disciplines: Work closely with Delivery Leads, Data Scientists, and Simulation Engineers to ensure designs balance innovation with feasibility.
- Support business development: Contribute to proposals, early-stage discovery, and pre-sales activities, helping identify opportunities where design can create commercial advantage.
- Develop scalable systems: Build and maintain design systems and component libraries that enable consistency and efficiency across complex enterprise solutions.
- Champion user-centred delivery: Balance usability, performance, and commercial priorities, maintaining focus on solutions that serve both users and clients effectively.
- Mentor and elevate others: Provide design direction and support for junior designers in client contexts, helping raise the overall standard of delivery.
- Experience: 5+ years delivering end-to-end design work within consultancy, agency, or enterprise contexts, with a proven record of direct client collaboration.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
- Portfolio: Strong examples of complex, data-rich, or AI-driven product design with tangible business and user outcomes.
- Tools: Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and research platforms such as Dovetail.
- Communication: Excellent facilitation and presentation skills, with the ability to engage confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
- Bonus: Experience designing for engineering or simulation environments, or familiarity with 3D tools such as Blender, Houdini, or Unity3D.
- Eligibility: US citizenship required; must be able to travel regularly for client delivery and collaboration.
Salary Range: $170k - $210k
What we offer
Build what actually matters
Help shape an AI-native engineering company at a formative stage, tackling problems that genuinely matter for industry and society. This is work with real-world impact - and something you can be proud to stand behind.
Learn alongside exceptional people
Work with a high-caliber, collaborative team of engineers, scientists, and operators who care deeply about doing great work, and about helping each other get better. We come from diverse backgrounds, but we share a commitment to operating at the highest level and addressing some of the most complex challenges out there. If you’re ambitious, thoughtful, and driven by impact, you’ll feel at home.
Influence over hierarchy
We operate with a flat structure: good ideas win - wherever they come from. Questioning assumptions and challenging the status quo isn’t just welcomed, it’s expected.
Sustainable pace, long-term ambition
Building meaningful technology is a marathon, not a sprint. We believe in balancing focused, ambitious work with a life beyond it. Our hybrid model blends time together in our New York office with work-from-home days, giving you the flexibility to work sustainably while staying connected in person.
And it doesn’t stop there …
🚀 Equity options - share meaningfully in the company you’re helping to build.
💰 5% contribution to 401(k) - build long-term security with a strong retirement plan.
🍽️ Free team lunch 1x/week - good food, great company, and space to connect.
🏥 Private health insurance – comprehensive cover for you, offering total peace of mind.
👶 Enhanced parental leave – 3 months full pay paternity and 6 months full pay maternity leave, to provide extra flexibility during the moments that matter most.
☀️ 20 days of Annual Leave (+ Public Holidays) - because taking time to rest matters.
📈 Personal development – dedicated support for learning, development, and leveling up over time.
💪 Gympass / Wellhub (subsidized) – for you and up to 3 family members, supporting both physical and mental wellbeing.
💳 Flexible Spending Account (FSA) – set aside pre-tax dollars for eligible healthcare expenses.
🔎 Watch this space, we’re continuing to build this as we grow…
Skills Required
- 5+ years delivering end-to-end design work
- Bachelor's degree in Design, HCI, Computer Science, or equivalent
- Strong portfolio of complex product design
- Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience in engineering or simulation design (bonus)
What We Do
PhysicsX is a deep-tech company of scientists and engineers, developing machine learning applications to accelerate physics simulations and enable a new frontier of optimization opportunities in design and engineering. Born out of numerical physics, we help our customers radically improve their concepts and designs, transform their engineering processes and drive operational product performance. We do this in some of the most advanced and important industries of our time – including Space, Aerospace, Medical Devices, Additive Manufacturing, Electric Vehicles, Motorsport, and Renewables. Our work creates positive impact for society, be it by improving the design of artificial hearts, reducing CO2 emissions from aircraft and road vehicles, and increasing the performance of wind turbines. We are currently recruiting for multiple positions, however please only apply for the role that best aligns with your skillset and career goals. We do not currently offer work experience
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