UX/UI Designer – Fleet Command & Robot Management

Location: San Mateo

Department: Engineering

Position Overview

We’re building the command layer for a new generation of intelligent robots.

As our first UX/UI design hire, you will define how humans command, deploy, and collaborate with autonomous systems in the physical world. You will own the experience for fleet command of distributed, sensor-equipped robotic systems operating in real environments. This is mission-critical software that enables non-experts to operate intelligent machines, not a fleet dashboard with status icons. Customers will rely on what you design to monitor, deploy, coordinate, and intervene across their robot installations. 

Beyond fleet command, you will architect a radically simplified deployment experience: a true “unbox, power on, connect, deploy” journey via app or tablet. Our ambition is to eliminate heavy pilots and prolonged engagements by making robot activation intuitive, guided, and production-ready from day one.

This is a zero-to-one role with expanding scope. You will set the design standard for the company and establish deployment and command UX as a strategic advantage for Skild AI.

Responsibilities

• Own UX/UI from concept through production.
• Translate complex robotics and AI capabilities into simplified, controllable systems.
• Design production workflows for distributed, moving, sensor-equipped assets.
• Lead customer interviews, usability studies, and rapidly prototyping.
• Raise the design craft, rigor, and systems-thinking bar across the applied AI team.
• End-to-end UX for fleet monitoring and control
• AI-assisted control surfaces (configure, automate, supervise, escalate)
• Self-service onboarding and training workflows
• Real-time telemetry and multimodal sensor visualization (camera + beyond)
• Alerting, incident response, and system health management
• Task orchestration and multi-robot coordination

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-4 years designing exceptional consumer hardware experiences and/or complex B2B operational systems.
• Proven experience building production workflows for distributed systems or moving assets.
• Strong background in data-heavy, real-time operational tools.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and multi-state workflows.
• Experience designing interfaces integrating multimodal data.
• Demonstrated systems thinking and high design craft.
• Comfort leading customer research and translating insight into product decisions.

Bonus

• Robotics, autonomous systems, security, or industrial experience.
• Experience designing control system consoles.
• Experience simplifying complex hardware setup flows.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted configuration and automation interfaces.