User Experience Researcher
Apply NowCompany: The Mathworks
Location: Natick, MA 01760
Description:
Improving workflows for users to share their MATLAB applications and Simulink models. Delivering useful and usable solutions for our software products. Involved in user centered design across platforms, including Deep Network Designer and programmatic interfaces. As a MATLAB UX Researcher, collaborate with members of a cross-functional development team that provides users with convenient, efficient, and easy to use tools for sharing their MATLAB applications and Simulink models with individuals, workgroups, and the enterprise. Follow a user-centered design approach and work collaboratively to research, design, and validate innovative solutions to complex problems. Make recommendations about which usability methods to use to answer questions about users and design directions based on projects' needs, goals, and constraints. Conduct user research, identify user pains, and develop user profiles to impact strategy and product direction. Act as an advocate for our technical users. Run usability tests and perform other usability assessments as appropriate. Help the teams interpret and understand user feedback and provide recommendations for design decisions based on that feedback. Contribute to requirements and design documents. Collaborate on low, medium, and high-fidelity prototypes. May telecommute up to 40%.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Employer will accept a Bachelor's in Design, Computer Science, Engineering [any], or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a User Experience Researcher -related occupation.
Alternatively, employer will accept a Master's degree in in Design, Computer Science, Engineering [any], or a related field and no experience.
Position requires demonstratable experience with each the following:
Leading UX research activities including formative and evaluative usability studies, customer interviews, and surveys; Applying quantitative research techniques; MathWorks products (MATLAB/Simulink); and Programmatic APIs.
Experience may be gained during graduate program. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it's a commitment to doing the right thing-for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
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Responsibilities
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Employer will accept a Bachelor's in Design, Computer Science, Engineering [any], or a related field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in a User Experience Researcher -related occupation.
Alternatively, employer will accept a Master's degree in in Design, Computer Science, Engineering [any], or a related field and no experience.
Position requires demonstratable experience with each the following:
Experience may be gained during graduate program. Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Why MathWorks?
It's the chance to collaborate with bright, passionate people. It's the opportunity to accelerate the pace of discovery, innovation, and learning in engineering and science. And it's a commitment to doing the right thing-for each individual, our customers, and the local community. We cultivate an enjoyable, participatory, and rational environment that champions individual growth, encourages initiative, values collaboration, shares success, and rewards excellence.
MathWorks develops MATLAB and Simulink, the leading technical computing software used by engineers and scientists. The company employs more than 6,500 people in 16 countries, with headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, USA. MathWorks is privately held and has been profitable every year since its founding in 1984.
YOU + MathWorks = Unlimited Possibilities
Apply now
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