Lead UX Engineering & Design Technologist

Quick Facts

• Role: Lead UX Engineering & Design Technologist

• Focus: Human-centered design, design systems, and design-to-code delivery

• Clearance: None required to start; must be able to obtain government clearances

• Travel: Up to 10% (Continental US)

Description

Lead human-centered UX efforts that bridge design principles and technical implementation using front-end engineering and AI-assisted development. Build and scale repeatable UX solutions—such as unified design systems, UI component libraries, and self-service accessibility/compliance toolkits—so program teams can deploy independently. Provide program-specific consulting and hands-on problem solving to improve UI/UX quality, accessibility, and workflow acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Build repeatable enterprise solutions and applications, including internal apps, UI templates, and reusable component libraries

• Engineer and scale design tokens and UI component frameworks that integrate with AI-assisted development tools

• Operationalize design-to-code workflows that convert Figma designs and layout logic into front-end code

• Develop automated self-service governance apps for heuristic evaluations, UX quality assessments, and Section 508 accessibility checks

• Create playbooks covering user research, design standards, and accessibility compliance for cross-functional stakeholders

• Provide internal UX consulting on design-to-development workflows, team resourcing, and UI timelines

• Diagnose and resolve complex UI/UX, front-end, and accessibility challenges; deliver hands-on solutions and transfer best practices across programs

• Establish standards for AI-assisted UI/UX tools to accelerate prototyping, synthesis, and discovery

• Author documentation/playbooks to help teams securely and effectively leverage AI while keeping artifacts compliant

• Use generative AI internally to accelerate prototyping, component generation, and data synthesis

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Science, or related field

• 5+ years of experience blending front-end UI engineering with UX design strategy or design system enablement

• Strong programming skills in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript plus modern frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue)

• Advanced Figma proficiency (auto-layout, components, styles, variables) for design-to-code handoff

• Understanding of Section 508 / WCAG accessibility standards

• Solid grasp of user-centered design, user research methods, and UX heuristics (personas, journey mapping, etc.)

• Practical generative AI literacy to accelerate development workflows and ability to teach others

• Exceptional presentation and collaboration skills with experience advocating for UX capabilities to stakeholders

• Ability to obtain Government Clearances

Benefits

• Culture of integrity and autonomy with flexible time off

• Trust-focused environment and robust learning resources

• Continuous growth and learning and development opportunities, including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits

• Competitive compensation; proposed salary range: $94,400 - $198,200