Senior UX Engineer, Human Understanding and Experiences Futures

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

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• 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.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications:

• 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 qualifications

• 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.

Benefits

User experience is at the forefront of how we create intuitive, innovative, and beautiful products that people love. We strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to gather insights that inform product strategy and design. Our UX teams include designers, researchers, content strategists, and engineers who are passionate about quality, usability, and simplicity. We work on collaborative teams to solve complex challenges and craft experiences that highlight our products’ unique capabilities and personalities.

Pay

US: $159000 - $231000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits