Senior Staff UX Engineer, Cloud AI

Google; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 236,000 - 329,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick leave

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays

Job summary

Google UX Engineers are versatile, passionate, and driven to advance the vision for our design teams. You will develop products and prototypes that bring innovative ideas to life, spanning Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise offerings.

Joining a multi-disciplinary UX team, you will collaborate with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading products, using insights to drive prototypes, launches, and tools that accelerate UX teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10 years of front-end or UX experience.
• Experience in multiple platforms (web, iOS, Android, XR).

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.

Skills

Front-end development

UX design

Prototyping

Web development

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

React

Lit

Angular

UI frameworks

Job description

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• 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

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

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

Minimum qualifications:

• 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.

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.

The Gemini Enterprise team is on a mission to redefine how businesses interact with AI. We are building a powerful, unified agentic platform that automates complex tasks, provides deep data insights, and seamlessly integrates with the tools enterprises use daily.

As a UX Engineer, you will be at the center of this transformation, bridging the gap between design and engineering to create intuitive and impactful user experiences. You will have the opportunity to work on products, including Vertex AI and our core Gemini Enterprise offerings, and help shape the future of work for millions of users.

People shop on Google more than a billion times a day - and the Commerce team is responsible for building the experiences that serve these users. The mission for Google Commerce is to be an essential part of the shopping journey for consumers - from inspiration to to a simple and secure checkout experience - and the best place for retailers/merchants to connect with consumers. We support and partner with the commerce ecosystem, from large retailers to small local merchants, to give them the tools, technology and scale to thrive in today’s digital world.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $236000 - $329000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• 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.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.