Senior UX Designer (6 month contract) at Optalis

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 Aug, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

11 May, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Information Architecture, Workflow Design, Systems Mapping, User Research, Technical Communication, Agile Software Development, Figma, Miro, Lucidchart, Design Systems Documentation, Multimodal Data Visualization, ML UX, Robotics UX

Industry

Description

Your New Role and Team Sanctuary AI, a world leader in building dexterity-driven Physical AI for general purpose robots, is looking to hire a skilled and motivated Senior UX Designer to join our Software Development team. As Senior UX Designer, you’ll design the user interaction and information architecture for Sanctuary AI’s data collection and model training platform, enabling the efficient collection of high quality task demonstration data for the training of our high performance ML policies. You will partner closely with users across engineering, product, operations, and research to accelerate Sanctuary’s mission to build human-like intelligence in general purpose robots. Success Criteria * Develop a deep understanding of robotic data collection and model training workflows, delivering clear proposals for optimizing workflows with intuitive user experiences. * Leverage prior experience in data-intensive applications to ensure automated tracking of progress as we teach our robots new skills. * Grow expertise in multimodal data visualization, ML and robotics UX, and workflow design for technical users while influencing long-term design strategy. * Mentor others by modeling systems-level design thinking, communicating UX impact across teams, and ensuring user needs remain central to platform evolution. Your Experience Qualifications * Bachelors’ Degree or equivalent work experience * 5+ years of real world design experience in a commercial organization * A track record of technical excellence and successful design projects Skills * Deep understanding of information architecture, workflow design, and systems mapping. * Strong research and communication skills * Ability to synthesize technical complexity into intuitive frameworks. * Familiarity with agile software development and collaboration across engineering, product, and research. * Experience with design tools (Figma, Miro, Lucidchart, etc.) and documenting design systems. Traits * Above all else, a consistently positive attitude and a willingness to do whatever it takes to create robust solutions to mission objectives * Successful candidates will be a proponent of personal responsibility for themselves and their teammates * Empathic listener who is solution-oriented in both work and working relationship * Consistent bias for action, effective communication, and building positive interpersonal relationships * Self-motivated and able to solve problems independently * Mission-driven and passionate about bringing physical artificial intelligence to general purpose robots

Responsibilities

Design the user interaction and information architecture for a data collection and model training platform for general purpose robots. Partner with engineering, product, and research teams to optimize workflows for high-performance ML policies.