Who We Are

For more than 25 years, Aptima's mission has been to improve and optimize performance in mission-critical, technology-intensive environments. We apply deep expertise in how humans think, learn, and perform to today's challenges. Whether for fighter pilots functioning in the cockpit, medical staff in the ICU, or teams collaborating across distributed networks, we are working to ensure synergy, enhance productivity, and accelerate learning, training, and readiness. 

Our culture is rooted in our core values, which have evolved over time and our employees have embraced – Integrity, Ingenuity, Excellence, Respect, Inclusion, Teamwork. At our core, Aptima researches, develops, and innovates within an area that engineering firms largely ignore, the human component. To impact the world in meaningful ways, you must bring those innovations to light, and that is precisely what we do. 

How You’ll Make an Impact

As a UI/UX Designer at Aptima you’ll take a co-creative approach to designing user experiences with multi-disciplinary teams solving challenging real-world problems on the cutting edge of R&D. In this role, you’ll be continually raising the bar for UX in innovative problem spaces such as human-AI collaboration and human performance optimization. 

Aptima is a fast-paced, forward-looking organization. Our projects span a wide range of domains, so you’ll always be learning and never be bored. We’re looking for team players with a positive attitude and strong collaboration skills who want to help teams execute at every stage of the design process, communicating ideas through artifacts like wireframes, workflows, interactive prototypes, creative briefs, and user personas. You’ll learn to lead engaging design studios that encourage team members to participate in creative problem-solving exercises, and you’ll work directly with software engineers to make your interface dreams a reality.

You Can Expect To:

• Shape Aptima’s design culture as a contributing member of our Design Community of Practice
• Participate in the design process on projects alongside teammates and stakeholders
• Empathize with users and customers, and advocate for their needs
• Iterate designs from lo-fi sketches to pixel perfect, implementation-ready prototypes
• Collaborate with software engineers to seamlessly transition designs from wireframes to code
• Collaborate on proposals to win exciting new projects

• Ability to obtain a government security clearance 
• 0-3 years of professional experience in User Experience Design or a related field
• Shareable UI-UX Portfolio
• Understanding of design methods and processes
• Visual design experience in Figma, Axure, or equivalent prototyping tool
• Ability to work independently, taking in design requirements from design and/or project leads and building prototypes which fulfill them
• Detail-oriented, with an eye for creating elegant and beautiful visual designs
• Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary team environments
• Familiarity with current design trends and best practices in the industry
• Consult with users, software engineers, project leads, and management to resolve problems and recommend alternative approaches
• Comfort stepping outside your comfort zone, exploring new problems and challenges

Additional Preferred Requirements:

• Bachelors’ Degree in a related field (e.g. Human Factors, UX Design, Computer Science, Communications Design)
• Veteran status or prior experience working with the US Department of Defense 
• Interaction design experience with AI, human-machine teaming, human-in-loop systems, etc.
• Familiarity with Angular 2.0, React, or similar development frameworks

 All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.