Senior UX Engineer, AI Systems Knowledge and Intelligence Engine

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; 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 – 20 days/year

Sick time – 40 hours/year

Maternity leave – 28–30 weeks

Baby Bonding Leave – 18 weeks

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a UX Engineer to design and prototype AI-driven user experiences. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate insights into production-ready UI components.

Join a multidisciplinary team building data visualization and tooling that accelerates decision-making across Google's product lines.

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 across multiple platforms using TypeScript and Python.
• Experience working with agentic tooling and translating technical decisions to non-technical collaborators.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build high-fidelity, interactive prototypes that bring AI to life for strategy and decisions.
• Develop front-end dashboards and data visualizations to tell compelling stories.
• Bridge research findings and technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to production code and explore AI capabilities to build UI components.
• Collaborate across UX Research, Product Management, and Engineering leadership to drive rapid iteration.

Skills

Front-end development

UX design

Prototyping

TypeScript

Python

Agentic tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

WebGL

Canvas

D3.js

LLM/AI APIs

Job description

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

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.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Kirkland, WA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Jose, CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.

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 across multiple platforms using TypeScript and Python.
• Experience working with agentic tooling and translating technical decisions to non-technical collaborators.

Preferred qualifications

• 7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
• Experience in WebGL, Canvas, D3.js, or similar technologies for dynamic, high-performance data visualization.
• Experience incorporating generative AI and large language model APIs into interactive tools.
• Technical leadership, peer mentorship experience, and a strong visual design background.
• Track record of growing in high-ambiguity research environments and rapidly validating disruptive product concepts.

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.

Our team architects the foundational intelligence layer for Google's agentic ecosystem, engineering the data, insights, and feedback loops that empower developers and autonomous agents. In this role, you will help define and build the next generation of tooling, data visualization, and infrastructure. Operating with an AI-builder mindset, you will develop new product surfaces and help partners communicate complex concepts to executives through production-grade functional prototypes.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company. 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

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build high-fidelity, interactive prototypes that bring abstract AI capabilities to life to accelerate executive strategy and product decision-making.
• Develop front-end dashboards and novel data visualizations that turn complex qualitative and quantitative data into compelling stories.
• Act as a bridge, translating open-ended research findings and deeply technical concepts into scalable patterns for non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to production code and explore AI capabilities, such as foundation models and intelligent workflows, to establish industry-leading UI components.
• Collaborate across UX Research, Product Management, and Engineering leadership to deliver actionable insights and foster a rapid launch-and-iterate culture.

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.