We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
Job Description:
- The UXE Feature Designer is accountable for all feedback and intuitiveness of user interfaces within the vehicle and infotainment systems.
- The UXE Feature Designers are specifically focused on feedback, messaging, auditory signals, intuitiveness, functional grouping and feature logic.
- The UXE Feature Designers are responsible for the robust development and management of system logic and ensuring specification alignment with customer functional objectives, electrical engineering specifications and graphical assets.
- The object of the activity is to design the user interaction of features and to provide clear and robust specifications to supporting teams and suppliers.
- The design of each feature and logic shall be coherent and aligned with all the other documents involved in the HMI domain.
- The The UXE Feature Designer will be involved in the validation of feature logic as well as working directly with the HMI validation teams to verify implementation aligns to requirements.
Job Duties Create clear and robust specifications:
- Participate in meetings:
- Present new design proposals; Share HMI issues related to the HMI features; Present benchmarking data to be compared to Client execution; Present user test results and give HMI directions.
- Propose solutions to improve the user interaction with the features and achieve higher targets;
- Lead change request activities;
- Support User Test team in order to create user tests to validate new design solutions; Support validation team during validation phases; Support for opening and solving validation issues; Support Performance Lead during vehicle assessments.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in one of the following fields: Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Biomedical, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields
- 5 years of experience in design role or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in one of the following fields: Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive systems or other related fields
- Experience with user centered design and requirements development
- Understanding of electrical engineering systems and development processes.
- Experience with Photoshop, Visio, Doors, Adobe XD
- Eight years of relevant experience in the field
- Good organizational, teamwork and problem solving skills, ability to meet deadlines amongst changing vehicle designs
- Detail oriented, flexible and has the ability to prioritize and facilitate alignments globally
- Understanding the benchmarking of competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics; which includes heuristic and objective measurements
- Experience with vehicle life cycle design and development
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Physiology, Biomechanics, Human Kinetics, Psychology, Cognitive Systems, or a related field
- At least 5 years of experience in a design role or related field
- Experience with user-centered design and requirements development
- Understanding of electrical engineering systems and development processes
- Experience with Photoshop, Visio, DOORS, and Adobe XD
- Master's degree in a related engineering, ergonomics, human factors, psychology, or cognitive systems field
- Eight years of relevant experience
- Experience benchmarking competitive vehicle designs for usability and ergonomics
- Experience with vehicle lifecycle design and development
- Strong organizational, teamwork, problem-solving, prioritization, and deadline-management skills
What We Do
ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering consulting company that provides innovative solutions for engineering, IT, and product development projects across the product life cycle. For decades, ALTEN Technology USA has been helping clients develop products that are changing the world, whether by shaping the future of space exploration, saving lives with medical devices that set new standards of care or creating the fully autonomous electric taxi of tomorrow. The company provides support across industries including aerospace, defense, MedTech and life sciences, unmanned systems and robotics, automotive OEM and tier 1 suppliers, commercial vehicles, electric vehicles, energy and environment, rail, and more.
Why Work With Us
Potential clients in the industries we serve, Professionals in the Industries, and Potential employees within New Product Development, Engineering Services, Sustaining Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Embedded Electronics Engineering, Software Engineering and IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
