Senior Staff UX Engineer, Cloud AI

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert for the broader organization, embracing emerging standards while establishing best practices to push the limits of what browsers, devices, and AI systems can do.
• Act as a cross-functional liaison to drive consensus among UX Designers, Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers.
• Architect front-end solutions that solve high-complexity problems and answer critical research questions.
• Deliver on large portions of projects by writing code, while influencing product areas stakeholders to align on outcomes that benefit the user.
• Design and develop the front-ends of user-facing products, bringing a human-centered approach to research while ensuring engineering and design goals meet user needs.
• Lead the creation of prototypes to support user studies and decision-making across the entire development cycle from early explorations to product release.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience in application development in one or more of the platforms/areas (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with the latest web standards, and latest iterations of those technologies such as JS/ES6, HTML5, CSS, REST, and mobile web.
• Experience with React, Lit, Angular, or a similar framework.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of UIs and technical frameworks.
• Experience with vibe coding approaches and toolkits, with an understanding of the best practices in prompt engineering.
• Understanding of fundamental web technologies (e.g., JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
• Understanding of how to apply AI to accelerate UX and engineering workflows.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retail Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Pay

$236,000 - $329,000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Schedule

Flexible work schedule

Location

San Francisco, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA