Applied Intuition
Product Designer, Defense
$150K–$200K
Sunnyvale · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product design experience across at least two meaningfully different environments.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in design or relevant field.
- Visa sponsorship
- U.S. citizenship required. Must hold or be eligible for a U.S. security clearance; Applied will sponsor.
About the job
Owns end-to-end design for defense operator interfaces and enterprise platforms used to develop, simulate, test, and deploy autonomy products.
What you'll do
- Lead research, interaction and visual design, prototyping, and delivery for Defense products, including field research with operators and partners.
- Design real-time interfaces, human oversight patterns for agentic autonomy, and enterprise autonomy-development tools.
- Extend the Defense design system and turn program-specific deliveries into repeatable products.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product design experience across at least two meaningfully different environments.
- Bachelor's degree in design or a relevant field.
- Track record shipping products end to end, from research through launch and iteration.
- U.S. citizenship; must hold or be eligible for a U.S. security clearance (TS/SCI target; Applied will sponsor).
Nice to have
- Active DoD Secret/Top Secret/TS-SCI clearance.
- Experience with defense or adjacent users, real-time or constrained-compute interfaces, developer platforms, or AI approval patterns.
Pay
$150,000–$200,000 USD base salary; $170K – $200K (total pay)
AI focus
Design approval and escalation patterns that keep humans meaningfully in the loop for agentic autonomy; design tools for building, simulating, validating, and shipping autonomy.
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