Senior UX Engineer — Design System & AI Prototyping

Google; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a UX Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team in San Francisco. You will work on the front end to bridge UX best practices with production execution, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading products for a global audience.

You’ll mentor engineers and designers, contribute to core libraries, and help define standards for AI-driven product development within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design setting, or related.
• 6 years of experience in front end development or UX engineering.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
• Architect robust prompt engineering pipelines and middleware layers to ensure LLMs consistently create output that perfectly maps to UI components.
• Mentor mid-to-executive engineers and designers, establishing web engineering excellence standards, contributing to core libraries and defining the organizational playbook for AI product development.
• Partner with executive members of the team, define and promote standards, and integrate changes into design system and workflow guidelines.
• Apply an inventive mindset to technical challenges, finding hacky-yet-robust ways to bridge gaps between design goals and model capabilities when standard solutions don't yet exist.

Skills

Front-end development

UX engineering

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AI Studio

Cursor

Antigravity

Firebase Studio

Job description

Google is seeking a UX Engineer to join our multi-disciplinary team in San Francisco. You will work on the front end to bridge UX best practices with production execution, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management to create industry-leading products for a global audience.

You’ll mentor engineers and designers, contribute to core libraries, and help define standards for AI-driven product development within a fast-paced environment.