Senior UX Engineer, Design Systems

Google Inc.; San Jose (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 vacation 20 days

Sick leave 40h/year

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Paid holidays 13 days

Job summary

Google Inc. is seeking a Senior UX Engineer to advance design systems across platforms. You will collaborate with designers and engineers to prototype and refine features, ensuring high-quality user experiences and scalable design tooling.

You will mentor junior engineers, contribute to design libraries, and apply AI techniques to evolve the design system and development pipelines in a fast-paced environment.

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).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers to refine feature ideas and interactions.
• Build high-fidelity prototypes, tools, and frameworks for user testing.
• Update prototypes based on research and hand off to engineering with insights.
• Contribute to team libraries used across prototypes and production.
• Leverage AI to improve design systems and pipelines.

Skills

Front-end development

Technical UX design

Prototyping

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

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Google Kirkland, WA, USA ; San Francisco, CA, USA ; +2 more ; +1 more

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

X 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.

• 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

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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 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.

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