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title: 'Visual Designer at Picogrid'
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# Visual Designer at Picogrid

- **Company:** Picogrid
- **Location:** El Segundo, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/picogrid/cd4c046f-4018-4226-b1b7-48da87be5f98

## Job description

## Who we are

Picogrid is a leading venture-backed defense technology company founded to bridge the decades-long gap between modern technology and the critical demands of national security. Today, we're building the essential infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators with our technology deployed in active operations around the world. Our mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.

## About the Role

At Picogrid, design is shared infrastructure that shapes how the entire company shows up. As the company scales, we're growing our graphic identity and building systems that put our standards directly into teammates' hands. As Visual Designer, you will apply and extend Picogrid's brand across presentations, technical diagrams, documents, hardware, and merchandise. Working closely with the Design Lead, who sets brand direction, you will help standardize brand visuals, apply them to new surfaces, and build the tools that make them easy to reproduce. You will partner with Marketing, Engineering,, and Business Development and have real ownership over brand applications and the workflows behind them. You will be expected to make informed decisions and find creative ways to support quality at speed. This role is ideal for a designer with strong graphic design fundamentals, who enjoys building visual identities, working in multiple mediums and is already experimenting seriously with AI-assisted production.

## What you’ll do

- Create elegant, clear graphics and communication across physical and digital surfaces
- Develop and extend the brand system - work with the Design Lead to formalize and document brand standards, then apply them to new surfaces as the company grows
- Develop templates for presentations, product graphics and documentation
- Turn standards into tools that allow non-design teammates to produce high quality output
- Build AI-assisted brand workflows - create and maintain custom instructions, skills, prompt libraries, and generation pipelines that encode our standards where teammates already work
- Scale recurring production
- Drive adoption across the company - find where teams produce off-brand work, give them a faster on-brand path, and train them on the tools
- Contribute to high-profile brand and marketing campaigns
- Maintain the foundation - organize the brand asset library and keep tools and templates current as the brand evolves

## Who you are

- Your graphic design and typography fundamentals are strong, and your portfolio shows it
- You think in systems. When you design one asset, you're already sketching the template, tool, or workflow that produces the next hundred.
- You make informed decisions and explain them clearly. You push back constructively when work doesn't meet the standard.
- You earn trust across functions. Engineers, marketers, and business development leads adopt what you build because it makes their work easier.
- You pair craft with pragmatism. You care about the details, and you ship tools people actually use
- You build with AI, not just use it. You've written the instructions, wired the pipeline, or scripted the template that made the output better and faster.

## Basic Qualifications

- 3–5 years of professional experience in graphic design, brand design, or visual communication
- A portfolio that demonstrates strong graphic design and typography, including systems work: identity systems, template suites, or reusable tools
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, or other modern design tools
- Hands-on experience building with generative AI - custom instructions or skills, generation pipelines, automated templates, or code-based design tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to explain design decisions and train teammates on new tools
- U.S. Person status required for access to ITAR-controlled environments

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with industrial design, print, or hardware
- Experience writing or formatting technical documentation or user guides
- Experience designing data visualization or technical diagrams
- Prior experience at a startup, defense technology company, or other fast-paced technical environment
- Interest in defense, robotics, aerospace, or technically complex systems
- Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Industrial Design, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

## Why this role exists

Picogrid is at an exciting stage where one designer cannot personally touch every piece of work. We are producing more visual assets than ever and setting the foundations for the materials produced across the company. This is where the visual designer comes in: someone equally capable of craft and systems thinking. The right person will help shape how Picogrid shows up to customers, partners, and operators as it scales.

## Compensation & Benefits

- Base salary range: $120,000- $160,000 per year. Base salary is just one part of your total compensation package at Picogrid.
- Significant stock options with a high potential upside as an early-stage company
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Health coverage for you and your family (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
- Relocation assistance provided (if applicable)
- Unlimited PTO (two-week minimum) and 11 paid holidays per year
- Paid parental leave for both parents
- Lunch provided when working in-office and a fully stocked kitchenette
- Free EV charging at the HQ
- Unique office in El Segundo, CA stocked with quality coffee, snacks, and craft beer

Export Control Requirements To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

## #LI-DNP

## Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Picogrid is committed to providing a professional work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

## About Picogrid

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Picogrid builds an open integration platform that connects sensors, unmanned systems, and command nodes across land, sea, air, and space for defense and public safety missions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: El Segundo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Zane Mountcastle (CEO) and Martin Slosarik (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Defense and Space Manufacturing, National Security, Public Safety
- **Target customers**: US and allied military forces, defense vendors, government agencies (B2G)
- **Mission**: Protect service members and civilians by making mission-critical systems work as one – because speed and cohesion are essential.

## Products & Services
- **Picogrid Platform**: A family of hardware and software products that integrate physical and digital assets. Enables fast deployment, seamless coordination, and edge-to-cloud operations across domains (air defense, base security, SIGINT, wildfire intelligence, human-machine teaming).
- **Orion**: A dual-use partner ecosystem that unifies legacy and next-gen satellites, sensors, drones, and C2 systems into a standardized, real-time operational picture.
- **Legion**: An API layer that allows third-party hardware and software to plug into Picogrid’s ecosystem, enabling rapid integration of new capabilities.
- **Expeditionary C2 Nodes**: Ruggedized hardware for field-deployed command-and-control, connecting edge devices and legacy systems.
- **Custom Solutions**: Tailored integrations for specific missions (e.g., wildfire response, air defense networks).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – **$57.31M** (including $45M Series A announced May 29, 2026, led by Bessemer Venture Partners)
- **Notable Investors**: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead Series A), Initialized Capital (seed lead), Starburst Ventures, Credo Ventures, Giant Step Capital, Alumni Ventures, Washington Harbour, GSBackers, and industry angels.
- **Growth Signals**: 103.3% YoY headcount growth (45 employees); 24 active job postings (+140% YoY); deployed globally with US and allied forces; integration ecosystem spans 100+ defense systems (Skydio, Northrop Grumman, Echodyne, CX2, Neros); recent integration of Ukraine-proven Shahed interceptors; partnerships with Hoverfly for persistent aerial detection.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open integration layer**: Hardware-agnostic, vendor-neutral platform that eliminates the “seams” between proprietary systems – a central bottleneck in modern defense.
- **Dual-use ecosystem**: Already trusted by elite operators and used in active operations, giving Picogrid real-world credibility that is hard for new entrants to replicate.
- **Speed of deployment**: Products are designed for rapid field integration, reducing the time from procurement to operational capability.
- **Broad domain coverage**: Land, sea, air, space, and cyber (SIGINT) – a unified approach across all operational domains.

## Strategic Focus
- Expand the product family and integration capabilities into new operational domains (e.g., space, undersea).
- Scale manufacturing in California and Oklahoma to meet growing demand from US forces and allies.
- Deepen the partner ecosystem to attract more defense vendors onto the platform, reinforcing network effects.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven work**: “Build systems that protect lives” – employees directly contribute to national security and public safety.
- **Rapid growth**: 103% headcount growth YoY, indicating strong trajectory and opportunity for impact.
- **Technical challenges**: Work spans edge software, field hardware, AI/ML, autonomy, and systems integration – appealing to engineers who want to solve hard problems.
- **Culture**: Emphasis on speed, cohesion, and operational relevance. The company values hands-on builders and mission partners.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in El Segundo, CA with additional locations in Oklahoma and Ukraine. Likely a mix of on-site and field deployment roles.
- **Notable perks**: Not detailed, but the engineering culture is described as building edge software and field hardware that shapes the future of defense.

## Sources
1. [picogrid.com](https://picogrid.com/)
2. [picogrid.com/careers](https://picogrid.com/careers)
3. [picogrid.com/mission](https://picogrid.com/mission)
4. [linkedin.com/company/picogrid](https://www.linkedin.com/company/picogrid)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/picogrid](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/picogrid)

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