United States, California, User Experience Researcher jobs

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop plans to enhance the user and customer experience across the digital and physical products and meet team performance
• Perform more-complex customer experiences that require highly specialized user interface and product design knowledge and advanced business expertise
• Lead some projects or programs within the product function and may coordinate activities of others
• Design process, product, and service improvements based on understanding of business needs and industry trends
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments that may impact activities of others
• Analyze business trends to inform user experience strategies and initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure user needs are prioritized in design processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

What You’ll do

• Elevate brand storytelling by translating abstract ideas and data into visually compelling narratives that communicate our strategy and vision for the future of AI.
• Design visually compelling, brand-aligned presentations that clearly communicate complex ideas and drive strategic impact
• Shape storytelling and brand presence through programs, newsletters, collateral, and UI design that communicate our AI vision while delivering clear, polished, and consistent experiences.
• S upport high-visibility initiatives including external and internal events, conferences, and strategic partnerships
• Collaborate across disciplines including designers, writers, product managers, marketing teams, and executives to translate abstract strategies and data into impactful visual narratives.
• Develop and maintain design systems, templates, libraries, and brand guidelines to ensure consistency and scalability.
• Champion best practices by contributing feedback, fostering collaboration, and helping shape the evolution of our brands, products, and visual voice.

About You
You'll thrive as a Staff Experience Designer if you:

• Bring 8+ years of experience in visual, brand, or communication design, with a strong portfolio showcasing impactful visual storytelling, branding, and illustration.
• Are a visual storyteller who can distill complex ideas into clean, compelling, and emotionally resonant visuals.
• Demonstrate mastery of typography, layout, color theory, and visual hierarchy across both digital and print touchpoints.
• Are a highly organized problem-solver who can juggle multiple projects, manage feedback loops, and deliver high-quality work under tight timelines.
• Are comfortable collaborating with senior leaders and cross-functional teams from project initiation to final delivery.
• Communicate effectively and collaboratively with teams and stakeholders at all levels, from initial concept through final execution.
• Are fluent in design tools such as PowerPoint, Figma (including strong prototyping skills), Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign), and Microsoft Office; illustration and motion design skills are a plus.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop plans to enhance the user and customer experience across the digital and physical products and meet team performance
• Perform more-complex customer experiences that require highly specialized user interface and product design knowledge and advanced business expertise
• Lead some projects or programs within the product function and may coordinate activities of others
• Design process, product, and service improvements based on understanding of business needs and industry trends
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments that may impact activities of others
• Analyze business trends to inform user experience strategies and initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure user needs are prioritized in design processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives.
• Negotiate with and influence decision-making reaching the senior executive level
• Identify and resolve unique situations of substantial significance in user interface or interaction design
• Allocate resources, responsibly and apply creativity to enhancing user and customer experiences across digital and physical products and services
• Lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences.
• Support and mentor less-experienced roles to provide an example of innovation, excellence, and day-to-day learning

Expected Qualifications:

• 10+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2 years of experience leading others

This job establishes the overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives, significantly influencing executive-level decision-making. They lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences and collaborates with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment on goals. Responsibilities include analyzing user feedback to inform design improvements and innovations while ensuring that user-centered design principles are integrated into all projects.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish overall business or technical strategy for user experience initiatives.

• Negotiate with and influence decision-making reaching the senior executive level

• Identify and resolve unique situations of substantial significance in user interface or interaction design

• Allocate resources, responsibly and apply creativity to enhancing user and customer experiences across digital and physical products and services

• Lead the development of user experience strategies that resonate with target audiences.

• Support and mentor less-experienced roles to provide an example of innovation, excellence, and day-to-day learning

Expected Qualifications:

• Significant experience leading large consumer product and technology teams across multiple capabilities

• Strong understanding of P2P and fintech trends, technologies, regulatory environments and consumer insights / trends.

• Proven track record for building, launching, and maintaining high-scale, successful products in a highly matrixed organization

• Demonstrated experience in managing complex app ecosystems, design systems, user onboarding, third-party integrations, identity management, and search functionality.

• Experience with Agile methodologies and product management tools.

• Experience strategically influencing and aligning senior stakeholders and key partners to drive action, results and change consistently

• Multi-disciplined leader who builds, develops, and advances high performing teams with strong development and domain capability, analytical, strategic, and operational excellence

• Exceptional communication and presentations skills with an ability to convey complex concepts and issues in a compelling, persuasive, fact-based manner

• Hands-on, "roll up your sleeves" mindset, with the ability to be a driver and change agent in an organization.

• Passionate for innovation and staying ahead of industry trends, emerging product technologies and advancements.

• BA is required

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

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Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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Essential Responsibilities:

• Develop plans to enhance the user and customer experience across the digital and physical products and meet team performance
• Perform more-complex customer experiences that require highly specialized user interface and product design knowledge and advanced business expertise
• Lead some projects or programs within the product function and may coordinate activities of others
• Design process, product, and service improvements based on understanding of business needs and industry trends
• Determine methods and procedures on new assignments that may impact activities of others
• Analyze business trends to inform user experience strategies and initiatives.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure user needs are prioritized in design processes.

Expected Qualifications:

• 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

As an Sr. Applied Research technical lead at eBay, you will be at the center of how multi-modal intelligence is applied across products. You will not just support AI development, you will lead a team of applied researchers and machine learning engineers to help define how AI driven solutions operate, scale, and deliver value. Your work will directly influence model quality, operational efficiency, and the ways AI enhances user experience across eBay.

Metrics and Reporting:

Define key performance metrics for AI models. Maintain operational excellence standards for data pipelines and models in production

Tools and Technical Fluency

Ph.D. in AI or equivalent research experience. Proficiency in Python and PyTorch for data processing, model training and inference. Expertise in Vision-Language Models and image/video retrieval. Deep understanding of key computer vision techniques for classification, image/video retrieval, 3D modeling, and Image/Video generation. Bonus: experience with frameworks for large-scale multi-GPU training (e.g. PyTorch Lightening, Nemo etc.) and for large scale inference (TensorRT, vLLM )

Two years plus of experience as a tech lead or a manager of science/engineering teams. Comfortable coaching, and enabling team members to deliver high-quality work through clear direction, support, and collaboration.

Quality and Attention to Detail
Detail oriented in how you work with data, models, documentation, and process. Ability to catch inconsistencies early, ensuring standards are consistently met across workflows and deliverables.

The base pay range for this position is expected in the range below:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Design Verification engineer on the ASIC team, you will ensure that the ASICs in our groundbreaking next-generation firewall products meet or exceed industry-leading requirements for features, performance, and reliability. You will define verification methodologies, architect test benches, write test plans, specify coverage, write tests, and debug. You will work on diverse platforms including simulation, emulation, formal verification, and silicon validation.

Your Impact

• Collaborate with engineers in software, architecture, design, and verification teams to create comprehensive pre-silicon verification plans across simulation, emulation, and formal verification
• Plan and execute every aspect of simulation test plans using sophisticated coverage-driven, constrained-random methodologies
• Develop flows, methodologies, and infrastructure for emulation - Create, run, and debug emulation tests in close collaboration with system architects, software engineers, and ASIC designers
• Define new tools and methodologies to continuously improve quality and velocity
• Create powerful programs in Python to automate triage, coverage closure, and metrics-driven verification

Your Experience

• BS in EE, CE, or CS required or equivalent military experience required - MSEE preferred
• Minimum 5 years experience in ASIC design verification
• Demonstrated success in taking multiple ASIC products from concept to mass production
• Expertise in SystemVerilog and UVM
• Technical strength in the following areas is required
  • Defining test plans, including comprehensive adversarial testing
  • Developing rich functional coverage models
  • Creating powerful and scalable test benches
  • Implementing sophisticated self-checking infrastructure with reference models and scoreboards
  • Developing reusable constrained-random tests
  • Debugging failures
  • Closing coverage
• Experience in the following areas is preferred
  • Networking and cyber security
  • Formal property verification
  • Silicon validation - bringup, test, debug, and regression
  • Creating models in Python and C/C++
  • Writing driver code in C
• Skilled in writing powerful, modular, and scalable programs in Python, Perl, and UNIX shell to automate verification tasks, especially regression testing
• Demonstrated ownership and independence in planning, debugging complex failures, closing metrics-driven tasks, driving vendors, and reporting status
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $235000 - $260000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

As a Principal Threat Intelligence Researcher in the Intel Response Unit, your primary responsibilities will include:

1. Client-facing Briefing: Deliver fused intelligence insights on a recurring basis to clients across industry verticals focusing on relevant cyber threat activities, trends, and shifts in the cyber threat landscape trends. Custom tailored content should empower defensive actions for clients, providing their threat intelligence and security teams with key observations, insights, and perspective. Content creation will require performing independent research across internal data sets, commercial third party data, and open sources. This will also include leveraging existing Unit 42 intelligence publications and working with partners from internal intelligence teams.

2. Client-facing RFI Support: Provide tailored research and analysis for client-based RFIs to drive business and security outcomes. Leverage the full weight of Palo Alto Network's unique data holdings, on-going research, cross-company capabilities, and externally sourced information. Assist leadership in creating a scalable solution to service multiple industries and similar stakeholder types. Model research findings into Unit 42’s Threat Intelligence Knowledge Repository (TIKR). Provide recommendations and help implement improvements to service support quality and speed to enhance the effectiveness and differentiation of our threat intelligence services. Some requests will require rapid turn around time, which may include operating outside of normal business hours.

3. Threat Profile Production: Create cyber threat profiles for clients to identify top cyber threat activities, groups, and trends relevant to a client’s unique business operations then provide tailored defensive recommendations. Work with clients to understand their operational footprint, business objectives, technology and security stacks, and areas of risk exposure. Develop MITRE ATT&CK workflows and heatmaps for top threat groups.

4. Anticipatory Threat Knowledge Creation: Develop structured intelligence insights tracking adversary trends, motivations, organizational priorities, and historical region and industry targeting patterns. This information will act as a backdrop to support intelligence production response for unfolding cyber events, exploitation trends, and threat actor campaigns. Collaborate with other Unit 42 CTI SMEs in fusion cells to expand research and existing collateral on threat groups.

5. Industry Voice & Expertise: Must be willing to represent Unit 42 by delivering expert-level presentations at key conferences, public speaking engagements, podcasts or webinars, and authoring influential thought leadership materials.

6. Peer Empowerment: Act as a resource for colleagues, sharing expertise and best practices to enhance team capabilities. Provide guidance to grow technical and strategic research acumen through personalized or group brown bag sessions.

7. Leverage AI for Analytic Workflows: Integrate Generative AI, NotebookLM, and other artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions across all phases of the intelligence lifecycle to improve analytic workflows. Use and develop new AI solutions to reduce research toil, query existing intelligence holdings, and accelerate report and presentation creation.

Your Experience

• 7 years minimum in the CTI field with experience in threat research, analytic production, and client-facing delivery.

• Strong knowledge of cyber threat actors, noteworthy attacks, and ability to quickly recognize inflection points, signalling shifts, evolution, or deviation from threat activity baselines or industry norms.

• Ability to contextualize cyber events, identify how the events fit into a current or historical pattern, the impact on an industry or organization, and tailored defensive recommendations.

• Experience operating under short fuse deadlines, managing concurrent tasks, and thriving in complex and sometimes ambiguous situations.

• Strong writing and presentation skills with the ability to communicate threat intelligence effectively to diverse audiences, including C-suite level customers.

• Deep experience with cyber threat intelligence frameworks and analytical techniques preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate with cross-organizational threat analysts, facilitating collaboration, and aligning efforts to achieve common goals.

• Experience presenting at CTI or cyber threat research conferences preferred.

• History of triaging and modeling open source data, telemetry, and other intelligence sources to quickly respond to requests for information. Preference for experience with Synapse or other hypergraphs.

• Experience with prompt engineering and leveraging Google’s AI capabilities to support development of intelligence products.

• Comfortable adapting to change as part of a growing team.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $162700 - $263150/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.