UI/UX Developer

Role

Senior UI/UX Engineer (contract) to design and implement enterprise-grade web applications for internal AI security, observability, and risk-analysis platforms. The role sits at the intersection of UX design, frontend engineering, and AI system observability and requires translating complex backend reasoning, evidence graphs, and multi-stage AI workflows into clear, accurate, and scalable user interfaces.

Key Responsibilities

UX & Interaction Design

• Design end-to-end workflows for complex AI analysis tools (wizard flows, async scan progress, review & reconciliation).
• Translate abstract system concepts (evidence confidence, conflicts, shadow AI, governing patterns) into visual metaphors and UI patterns.
• Create wireframes, interaction specs, and component behavior definitions for engineering implementation.

Frontend Engineering

• Build production UIs using TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks.
• Implement high-performance graph visualizations (Canvas/WebGL-based) for large, dynamic graphs (hundreds to thousands of nodes).
• Integrate with Flask- and FastAPI-based backends and consume REST and WebSocket APIs for real-time updates.
• Ensure UI state consistency with asynchronous backend pipelines and design scalable component architectures for enterprise use.

System-Aware UI Design

• Design interfaces that accurately represent system state, evidence hierarchy, deterministic classification rules, and epistemic uncertainty.
• Surface contradictions and ambiguity explicitly and support human-in-the-loop audit workflows, overrides, and immutable decision trails.

Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with backend engineers, AI/ML engineers, security architects, and threat modelers.
• Participate in product architecture discussions and iterate quickly from wireframes to production while preserving design intent.

Requirements

Required Technical Skills

• Strong experience with TypeScript.
• Experience with one or more modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, Remix, SvelteKit, etc.).
• Strong CSS and layout fundamentals for complex, data-dense dashboards.
• Experience building interaction-heavy UIs and handling UI performance constraints at scale (virtualization, progressive loading, aggregation).
• Experience with graph/diagram rendering libraries (e.g., Cytoscape.js, React Flow, D3, Sigma.js or similar) and understanding when to use Canvas/WebGL vs DOM.
• Comfortable integrating with Flask and FastAPI backends and consuming REST and WebSocket APIs.
• Understanding of async workflows and long-running backend jobs.

Nice to Have

• Experience designing interfaces for security tooling, compliance/audit systems, or AI/ML platforms.
• Familiarity with graph theory concepts, AI pipelines (RAG, agents, embeddings), and IaC/cloud architecture diagrams.
• Background as a frontend engineer who evolved into UX, or a UX designer with deep frontend coding experience.

Contract Details & Interview Process

• Contract duration: 12–24 months.
• Rate: approximately $65/hr (W2 hourly; 1099/c2c not accepted).
• Locations: Charlotte, NC; Plano, TX; Chandler, AZ; Iselin, NJ; Minneapolis, MN.
• Interview: coding assessment followed by a panel video interview.

Benefits (eligible after waiting period)

• Medical and Prescription Drug Plans
• Dental Plan
• Vision Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Business Travel Insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Weekly pay