Senior UX Engineer, Human Understanding and Experiences Futures

Google
San Francisco, CA, USA / Mountain View, CA, USA

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our UX Engineers are versatile, passionate, and driven to advance the vision for our design teams. Comfortable working across discipline lines, you will develop products and prototypes that bring innovative ideas to life. Joining a multi-disciplinary UX team, you will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management, using user insights to create industry-leading products. In a fast-paced environment, you will use your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to: create prototypes that define product experiences; launch innovative features; build tools to accelerate UX teams; and bridge design and engineering to ensure efficient, high-quality execution. As a Senior UX Engineer, you will utilize AI fluency to help define how Google builds for an AI-first world. In this role, you won’t just be building interfaces, you will be architecting the tools and frameworks that empower the global UX community to design and prototype with emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

Act as a subject matter expert on models, identifying how to leverage them for novel user experiences.

Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes using real data to validate product hypotheses and drive insights.

Develop and maintain critical prototyping infrastructure used by Search and partner teams and the broader Google community.

Partner with designers, researchers, and product leads across different product areas to resolve ambiguity and define technical requirements.

Apply an inventive mindset to technical challenges, finding ways to bridge gaps between design outlook and model capabilities when standard solutions don't yet exist.

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.

Experience in application development in at least one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Preferred

7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.

6 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.

Experience with developing rich, beautiful prototypes on the web or native mobile platforms.

Experience with modern ML and LLM APIs.

Excellent UX design sense.