UI / UX Designer Intern (Summer 2026)

Who We Are

Tenet3® is a digital knowledge management company based in Dayton, Ohio. We have deep roots in cybersecurity, system trustworthiness, and software/hardware assurance. We develop software products involving advanced machine learning and property graph representations to enhance human cognition. Tenet3 is a recognized leader in creating novel solutions for managing knowledge about complex systems. Our capabilities put data in context so that teams can generate meaningful insights. We leverage our knowledge management platform, MeTRA®, and sophisticated AI/ML tooling to rapidly build digital knowledge graphs using open data standards that make them accessible and usable across the lifecycle. Tenet3 is growing by applying our knowledge management platform to systems assurance, cybersecurity, and engineering change analyses. 

The Role

As a UI/UX Design Intern at Tenet3, you’ll bridge the gap between complex engineering logic and intuitive visual communication. You will gain hands-on experience supporting the design for our knowledge management  platform service while simultaneously supporting the brand’s presence through high-impact marketing collateral, that may include flyers, templates, etc..

This on-site internship is ideal for students who love organizing chaos and are eager to apply design thinking to highly technical, real-world challenges in aerospace and defense. You’ll receive one-on-one mentorship, exposure to industry-standard design tools, and the opportunity to see your work directly influence how engineers interact with complex system models.

What You’ll Do

• Support Product Design: Collaborate with the Product team to design user interfaces and components for our knowledge management platform.
• Create Brand Collateral: Design professional marketing materials, this may include technical flyers, white papers, and corporate templates.
• Maintain Design Systems: Assist in the upkeep of our Figma component library to ensure visual consistency across all media.
• Translate Complexity: Turn dense engineering diagrams and data into clean, scannable, and aesthetically professional layouts.

Essential Job Duties (may include)

• UI/UX Prototyping: Assist in creating wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma.
• Marketing Design: Draft and refine external-facing documents using Adobe InDesign and Illustrator, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines.
• Template Development: Build and maintain reusable templates for presentations and technical documentation to streamline team workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Participate in design reviews and team standups; iterate on designs based on feedback from both engineers and marketing stakeholders.
• Asset Management: Organize and maintain a library of icons, illustrations, and brand assets for use across the organization.

Skills and Qualifications

• Education: Currently enrolled in an undergraduate program in Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related creative field.
• Grade Level: Incoming College Sophomore, Junior, or Senior with a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.5 or higher.
• Tool Proficiency: Foundational experience with Figma (for UI) and Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Illustrator and InDesign (for print/layout).
• Visual Communication: A strong eye for typography, grid systems, and information hierarchy; ability to make complex information easy to understand.Portfolio: A portfolio of work (class projects or personal) that demonstrates both digital UI work and layout/graphic design.
• Growth Mindset: Highly curious, system thinker who is detail-oriented, and comfortable asking "Who is the end-user?" when faced with technical ambiguity.

Tenet3 provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Equal employment opportunity applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training.