# Human Machine Interface (HMI) Designer

**Company**: Shield AI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a Human Machine Interface (HMI) Designer to join our team developing next-generation Ground Control Station (GCS) applications for unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

You’ll work on mission-critical software designs that bridge responsive user interfaces with robust backend systems, enabling human operators to plan, command, and monitor autonomous assets with precision and reliability.

## Responsibilities:

- Engage in end-to-end design of HMI systems for UAV ground control station displays

- Translate complex system requirements into clear, intuitive, and safety-critical user interfaces

- Develop wireframes, user flows, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma

- Collaborate cross-functionally with systems engineers, pilots/operators, software developers, and human factors experts

- Apply human factors engineering principles to optimize usability, workload, and situational awareness

- Design for real-time data visualization, including telemetry, navigation, sensor fusion, and mission planning tools

- Conduct usability testing, simulations, and iterative design validation

- Contribute to and maintain a design system and component library within Figma for consistency and scalability

- Work with other designers to help establish best practices in HMI/UX design

## Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

- 5+ years of professional experience designing HMI/UX for aerospace, defense, or other commercial applications.

- Expert-level proficiency in Figma (component systems, prototyping, design systems)

- Strong understanding of human factors, cognitive workload, and situational awareness

- Experience working with cross-disciplinary engineering teams

- Ability to handle complex, ambiguous problem spaces and translate them into usable designs

## Preferred Qualifications:

- Demonstrated experience designing interfaces for aircraft cockpits (manned) and/or Unmanned systems / Ground Control Stations (GCS).

- Experience designing for multi-screen, touch, and hardware-integrated interfaces

- Knowledge of simulation environments or operator-in-the-loop testing

- Background in designing for degraded environments or high-stress operational contexts

- Familiarity with additional tools (e.g., Adobe CC, Principle, Framer), but Figma expertise is strongly prioritized

## Additional Information:

- Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)

- Salary compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

## Skills

### Required
- Figma
- HMI/UX design
- human factors engineering
- real-time data visualization
- cross-functional collaboration

### Nice to have
- aircraft cockpit design
- unmanned systems design
- multi-screen interface design
- simulation environments
- Adobe CC
- Principle
- Framer

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