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Product Designer, Defense

Applied Intuition· Design
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Sunnyvale$150k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Product Designer to own experience end to end for defense surfaces, including real-time operator interfaces and enterprise web platforms, with a strong emphasis on research, complex domains, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design of one or more Defense products end to end — research, interaction and visual design, prototyping, shipped UI.
  • Become the voice of the operator through primary research, ride-alongs, and exercises with warfighters and partners.
  • Design real-time edge interfaces that reduce cognitive load and shorten the decide-act loop under contested comms and limited compute.
  • Design the trust model for agentic autonomy — approval and escalation patterns that keep humans meaningfully on the loop.
  • Design the enterprise tools used to build, simulate, validate, and ship autonomy.
  • Extend the Defense design system to serve both real-time and enterprise workflows without splintering.
  • Turn one-off program deliveries into repeatable products.
  • Represent design at demos, program reviews, and industry events; help grow the design practice as the vertical scales.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product design experience across at least two meaningfully different environments (industries, product types, stages, or customer segments).
  • Bachelor's degree in design or relevant field
  • Track record shipping products end to end — research through launch and iteration — including hard calls on what not to build.
  • Strong research instincts: proven ability to learn a new domain from scratch and turn findings into design direction.
  • A portfolio showing judgment on information density, decision UI, and multi-user workflows.
  • Comfort learning and designing for technically complex systems (no autonomy/robotics background required).
  • Strong engineer collaboration and ability to partner with EMs/tech leads on tradeoffs.
  • Clear communication — from design briefs to presentations for senior leadership.
  • Proficiency with modern prototyping tools.

Skills

Required:Product designUser researchPrototypingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Base salary and equity
  • Medical/dental/vision/life/disability benefits
  • 401(k) match
  • Learning/wellness stipends
  • Paid time off (PTO)
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Applied Intuition

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Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company with the tools, Vehicle OS, and autonomy stacks for creating safe, AI-powered vehicle experiences.

AIAutonomy stacksSelf-Driving SystemSimulationTesting & ValidationVehicle IntelligenceVehicle OSai-infrastructure-and-development
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