Product Designer - Government

You will create mission-critical AI products for federal government and enterprise partners, ensuring compliance and usability in regulated environments. This includes designing interfaces, analyzing user feedback, and refining design guidelines based on stakeholder input.

Responsibilities

• Distilling insights from user needs, model research, and government requirements into clear product directions, ensuring compliance with customer standards.
• Designing and prototyping interfaces for xAI products, future standalone products, and secure government or enterprise platforms, with an emphasis on usability in regulated settings.
• Specifying and evaluating model behavior, working closely with our research efforts, while benchmarking designs for performance, security, and auditability.
• Enhancing user experiences through iterative design, prompt tuning, or interface refinements, with a focus on secure and scalable deployment.
• Analyzing user feedback, system outputs, or request logs to ensure reliability in mission-critical workflows.
• Building internal design tooling or prototypes to streamline workflows and automate repetitive tasks in secure environments.
• Refining xAI design guidelines or developer resources based on government or enterprise feedback, prioritizing usability for stakeholders in regulated contexts.

Requirements

• Government Partnership Experience: Demonstrated success working with government agencies, DoD, or federal contractors on AI, software, or design projects.
• Clearance Required: Active U.S. security clearance (e.g., Top Secret, Top Secret SCI) is a requirement for this role
• 6+ years of design experience, ideally in environments requiring high reliability or security.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with experience documenting design solutions for diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to translate business, product, or mission needs into design solutions, particularly for government or enterprise clients.
• Proven experience implementing AI or machine learning interfaces with APIs, back-end systems, and front-end prototypes.
• Strong understanding of secure design principles and user experience in regulated contexts.
• Robust design background, preferably in fields such as Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Computer Science, or related disciplines.

Key Skills

• Experience building evaluation frameworks for AI-driven designs and assessing usability in regulated or high-stakes contexts.
• Deep understanding of machine learning fundamentals—model interaction, evaluation, and user-facing tuning—with a focus on production-ready deployments.
• History of deploying AI-enhanced designs to production, ideally in secure or cloud-based government environments.
• Expertise in writing design documentation or maintaining resources for technical audiences, including government stakeholders.
• Ability to work with complex datasets, optimize user flows for performance, and scale designs for high-throughput, mission-critical workloads.
• Familiarity with secure design tools or infrastructure, particularly in government-aligned deployments.
• Strong portfolio showcasing your work in fast-paced, collaborative environments, with experience designing for both web and mobile platforms in regulated settings.

Benefits

• Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.