Senior Technical Design Researcher, Pixel, AI Systems and Hardware

Google LLC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Google LLC in Mountain View seeks a Senior Technical Design Researcher for Pixel AI Systems and Hardware. You will join a multi-disciplinary UX team to gather insights and drive impact across product development.

You will conduct primary research, prototype future concepts, and collaborate with Engineering and PMs to shape useful, usable AI hardware experiences. Equity and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of applied research experience or similar.
• Experience with research methods such as usability studies and interviews.

Responsibilities

• Conduct primary research including field studies, interviews, and diary studies.
• Collaborate with Engineers and PMs to translate insights into design.
• Prototype and test UX concepts across the AI hardware stack.
• Drive qualitative research initiatives within ambiguous problem spaces.

Skills

Qualitative research

Usability studies

Interviews & surveys

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree preferred

Tools

AI tooling

Agentic workflows

Automation

Job description

Senior Technical Design Researcher, Pixel, AI Systems and Hardware

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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in AI, computer science, electrical/computer engineering, design engineering, AI engineering, robotics, or a related field.
• 6 years of experience building physical hardware prototypes, interactive systems, or working in research and development.
• Experience driving qualitative research and human-computer interaction initiatives within ambiguous problem spaces.
• Experience with hardware and sensor integration, and programming to independently engineer and build functional physical prototypes.
• Experience building AI tools including agentic workflows and automation.

About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather insights and create industry-leading products. You’ll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

You will also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular meetups, and exclusive internal tools.

In this role, you will collaborate with teams across Google to define what Pixel intelligence means by co‑designing experiences across the full AI stack from compute capabilities to user interface. You will independently prototype future‑forward concepts and evaluate them with real users.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people’s lives better through technology.

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

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

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• Employ an AI-forward research approach by embedding agentic workflows and AI tooling into research processes to accelerate execution and ensure scalability.
• Build new UX experiences while co‑designing across the full AI stack (e.g., intelligent interfaces, sensing, and compute). Develop and test prototypes that explore technical trade‑offs (e.g., cloud vs. on‑device inference).
• Explore novel UX opportunities and create physical, testable prototypes for user evaluation.
• Apply first‑principles thinking to challenge the status quo and deconstruct challenges to fundamental truths.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to building a workforce that is representative of the users we serve, creating a culture of belonging, and providing an equal employment opportunity regardless of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), expecting or parents‑to‑be, criminal histories consistent with legal requirements, or any other basis protected by law. See also Google's EEO Policy , Know your rights: workplace discrimination is illegal , Belonging at Google , and How we hire .

Google is a global company and, in order to facilitate efficient collaboration and communication globally, English proficiency is a requirement for all roles unless stated otherwise in the job posting.

Equity is granted exclusively and discretionarily by Alphabet Inc. on the basis of an agreement concluded between you and Alphabet Inc. Alphabet Inc. is your sole contractual partner with respect to equity grants. GSU grants are not guaranteed, are discretionary, are subject to approval by the Alphabet Inc. board of directors or its delegate, the terms of the relevant Alphabet Inc. stock plan, and your grant agreement. They have no impact on statutory payments. Current or past grants do not confer an acquired right.