Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems

Google; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D

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 in the Platforms and Devices division. You will design, prototype, and refine user-facing experiences across desktop and mobile platforms, collaborating with design, product management, and engineering to deliver high-quality features.

You will translate concepts into living prototypes, drive design-system initiatives, and help production apps align with user needs and accessibility standards. A strong emphasis on cross-disciplinary collaboration is required.

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 web, mobile, or XR platforms.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
• Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.
• Meet high accessibility standards.
• Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.

Skills

Front-end development

Technical UX design

Prototyping

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

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:

Kirkland, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; San Jose, 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 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.

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.

As a UX Engineer, you’ll weave together design aesthetics with technical know-how. You'll partner with researchers and designers to define and deliver new features, translate concepts into living, breathing prototypes, and iterate on interactions, animations, and details to deliver a seamless experience. UX Engineers also collaborate with our software engineering team to refine experiences in our production apps when necessary.

More specifically, you will:

• Collaborate with designers to refine feature ideas and product interactions.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes, tools, and frameworks to aid the design process, and work with team members to bring them in front of users.
• Update prototypes with new and refined ideas based on research feedback, and hand them off to engineering while providing technical insights.
• Contribute to team libraries that are used both across our prototypes and production.
• Utilize AI to improve the design system and build systems to transform the way our team works.

The Platforms and Devices team encompasses Google's various computing software platforms across environments (desktop, mobile, applications), as well as our first party devices and services that combine the best of Google AI, software, and hardware. Teams across this area research, design, and develop new technologies to make our user's interaction with computing faster and more seamless, building innovative experiences for our users around the world.

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

Responsibilities

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• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
• Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.
• Meet high accessibility standards.
• Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.

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 .