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Anduril

Robot type
Drone · Defense
Location
IrvineCaliforniaUSA
Job type
Artificial Intelligence
Posted
Aug 4, 2026
Salary
$166,000–$220,000 a year
Full-time

Senior User Experience Researcher

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center.

Anduril’s Air Defense team builds autonomous robots that find other robots and knock them out of the sky.

Job responsibilities

  • With rigorous data and user insights, contribute to the direction and decision-making for Air Defense product and program strategy.
  • Conduct and lead UX research such as service blueprints, contextual inquiry, in-field rapid ethnography, focus groups, observations, workshops, surveys, and usability testing.
  • Use storytelling to inspire and align partners and key stakeholders.
  • Identify and drive forward ideas and recommendations to improve product(s) based off of actionable research insights.
  • Operationalize ways to consolidate and share research insights, including ways to communicate quickly and efficiently, synthesize insights into research repositories, create workflows to work more powerfully with…
  • Play an influential role in shaping the end-to-end experiences for critical operator workflows.
  • Help to shape the UX research best practices in Air Defense and share insights, process, and best practice across Anduril, at large.

Job requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in the Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant user research experience working on digital products. Can work through ambiguity and help define research approaches to deliver impact based on actionable insights that prioritize the needs of the…
  • Research craft: Can expertly design, plan, and execute research studies with clear objectives, goals, and timelines with little or no oversight.
  • Portfolio of work demonstrating research and insights which influenced both tactical and strategic product development work.
  • Strong communication skills in a fast-paced environment; ability to drive conversations with cross-functional partners with user data;
  • Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance
  • Expected travel is between 25-30%
  • In this role, you will be subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening, as required by the Company.

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