Senior UX Engineer

Job Title: Senior UX Engineer
Location: Raleigh, NC 27615/Onsite, Only local candidates.
Duration: 6 months, possible extension

Only local candidates

Job Description:
Applies a solid understanding of standard user experience (UX) design principles, techniques, procedures, and criteria toward the development of new or enhanced software products or processes.
Plans, executes, and functionally directs important UX assignments, which require independent judgment.
Has strong visual design and branding experience, including experience creating and executing a design language system (DLS) in figma.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: This section contains a list of 5 to 8 primary responsibilities of this role that account for 5% or more of the work. The incumbent will perform other duties assigned.
Create user friendly interface designs, adhering to established UI design standards and practices, including client's design patterns and guidelines, W3C guidelines, Google Material Design guidelines, Apple Human Interface Guidelines, and Android Design Guidelines.
Participate in customer interviews, interactions, and other user research to identify customer needs and wants.
Create UI prototypes, which may be used for testing or marketing purposes.
Participate in usability research, including creating test plans and scripts, moderating usability test sessions, and writing final reports.
Document user experience designs and specifications.
Provide UX and design input to cross functional teams, including recommendations for product and process improvements based on UX expertise and knowledge.
Act independently with minimal supervision.
Utilize project team engineering methodologies and tools to manage work and communicate across teams and specialties.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
A solid understanding of UX design principles
Experience using UI design and prototyping tools, especially advanced figma skills, including creating and using components, variables, auto-layout, and themes
Passion for improving user experiences and willing and able to advocate on behalf of the user and UX best practices
Ability to explain and document UI designs and decisions, both verbally and in written form.
Ability to collaborate with other team members on design projects
Ability to work independently while collaborating and communicating with software development project teams
Ability to travel to client's and/or customer sites and meet hospital credentialing requirements

Desired: Experience with medical device or other regulated disciplines

Background and/or Experience: B.S. in Human Factors or related field, or equivalent, and three to five years related work experience.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.