Career Opportunities

Design Interactive, Inc. is located in Oviedo, FL in the high-tech corridor of Central Florida. We offer the successful applicant the ability to work with some of the brightest minds in the realms of Defense, industry and academia on cutting-edge computing technologies, human-systems integration research and development and training systems analysis and design.

Design Interactive, Inc. is continually looking for bright, motivated individuals in the fields of HSI, Training and advanced computing. We are an equal opportunity employer, and encourage a diverse, family friendly workplace. If you are interested in working in a challenging environment on the cutting edge of human factors issues, please contact us by submitting a resume to

Currently open positions are listed below. If you do not see a position that you feel matches your interests in human factors, please contact us anyway. We are a growing, evolving organization and new positions come up frequently.

Due to our work with the Department of Defense, US citizenship is preferred but not required for all positions, as is relocation to the Orlando area.

MS in Human Factors, HCI, Industrial Engineering, or Cognitive Psychology

Design Interactive currently has an opening for a human factors engineer that specializes in cognitive task analysis, conducting experiments, and observational analysis. The ideal candidate will have experience and expertise in the areas of instructional design, requirements engineering, user interface design, and usability engineering. Proven organization and communication skills required. Any experience with military interfaces or multimedia is a plus. Light programming experience is also a plus. Duties will include supporting several efforts in the areas of innovative system design and evaluation, multimodal interface design, adaptive training system design, and HSI tool development. Experience in cross-cultural competency, trust, and/or team training also desirable.

Minimum Requirements:

- Masters Degree in Human Factors, HCI, Industrial Engineering, or Cognitive Psychology, or a related discipline; instructional design minor preferred.

- Experience in cognitive task analysis and gathering user-centered requirements from observational data. The candidate must have understanding of task analysis methods and requirements engineering approaches.

- Experience developing appropriate artifacts from observational data, such as user profiles, task flows, user scenarios, use cases, requirements specifications, user error analysis, heuristic evaluations, and conceptual designs and prototypes (both hardware and software).

- Ability to apply your knowledge of human performance, human factors, and instructional design techniques to design, development, and evaluation of interactive systems and products.

- Solid understanding of the theories, principles, and data associated with human performance capabilities and limitations (perceptual, cognitive, motor, and neural) and instructional design, and the ability to apply this knowledge to the design, requirements definition, and evaluation of interactive training systems.

- Ability to use appropriate human factors techniques to work with end users to determine end user behavior, preferences, and usage models, and integrate these into requirements specification and design documents.

- Ability to plan and conduct end user evaluations of interactive system / product concepts, analyze data, and document evaluation methods and results.

- Experience in preparing clear and effective oral and written technical reports and proposals.

- Refereed publications

- U.S. citizenship

Qualified candidates should contact: Karen Gibbons, Karen.Gibbons@DesignInteractive.net

Software/Systems Engineer I or II

Design Interactive, Inc. is seeking an experienced, full-time Software/Systems Engineer I or II to support our mission of providing engineering services and consulting in human-system integration (HSI), usability engineering, training systems design and evaluation, and next generation HSI research, the latter of which is exemplified by our cutting-edge multimodal system design research.