Instructional Designer

Echodyne is seeking a Instructional Designer to join our fast-growing team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct audience, needs, task, and performance analyses for radar hardware and software training.
• Observe field deployments or customer training to understand the Solutions Engineer workflow firsthand.
• Develop role-based curricula and learning paths for customers, including onboarding, product releases, and continuing education.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, accurate, and approachable instruction.
• Create asynchronous courses, interactive modules, product simulations, scenario-based exercises, assessments, labs, job aids, and field-reference materials.
• Design training that connects software workflows with hands-on hardware activities, including installation, configuration, calibration, operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Write measurable learning objectives and align content, practice activities, and assessments with those objectives.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, Solutions Engineers, support teams, technical writers, and other subject-matter experts to gather and validate content.
• Collaborate with the video content developer on scripts, storyboards, demonstrations, animations, and other instructional media.
• Establish templates, standards, and repeatable development processes for the training program.
• Manage course content through review, publication, version control, and product-lifecycle updates.
• Evaluate learning effectiveness using learner feedback, assessment results, field-readiness indicators, and stakeholder input.
• Recommend improvements based on performance data, product changes, customer needs, and lessons learned in the field.
• Manage multiple projects and release-driven deadlines while maintaining technical accuracy and instructional quality.

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree in instructional design, learning sciences, educational technology, engineering education, technical communication, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• Three or more years of experience designing professional or technical training.
• Demonstrated experience developing asynchronous e-learning and performance-support materials.
• Working knowledge of adult-learning principles and instructional design approaches such as ADDIE, SAM, backward design, and Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Proficiency with an e-learning authoring platform such as Articulate 360, Adobe Captivate, or an equivalent tool.
• Experience creating meaningful assessments, hands-on exercises, and scenario-based learning.
• Experience working with engineers or other technical subject-matter experts.
• Ability to understand unfamiliar technical systems and explain them accurately to different audiences.
• Strong project-management skills and the ability to work independently in a product-driven environment.

DESIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE
(Looking for one or more as a complement to the core skills)

• Experience developing training for integrated hardware and software products.
• Background in radar, RF systems, sensors, electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, defense, robotics, industrial equipment, or another complex technical field.
• Familiarity with networking, system integration, data visualization, command-line tools, APIs, or cloud-connected applications.
• Experience designing hardware labs, software simulations, troubleshooting scenarios, or technical certification programs.
• Experience with video-production or visual-design tools such as Camtasia, Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with accessibility standards and inclusive learning design.
• Experience supporting field engineers, Solutions Engineers, customer enablement, or technical support organizations.
• A degree or professional certification in instructional design, learning and development, or a related discipline.

Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations.  Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S.

WHAT WE OFFER

This is an exempt role.