Senior UX Engineer - Search Design System & AI Pipelines

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

Job summary

Google is seeking an Advanced UX Engineer for the Search Design System, based in Mountain View or New York. You will work across disciplines to translate user insights into production-ready front-end features, bridging UX best practices with scalable implementations.

The role demands depth in UX engineering, collaboration with product teams, and a passion for high-impact, global user experiences. You’ll contribute to design system evolution, collaborate with engineering leadership, and help push

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design setting, or a related experience.
• 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

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Firebase Studio

AI Studio

Cursor

Antigravity

Job description

Google is seeking an Advanced UX Engineer for the Search Design System, based in Mountain View or New York. You will work across disciplines to translate user insights into production-ready front-end features, bridging UX best practices with scalable implementations.

The role demands depth in UX engineering, collaboration with product teams, and a passion for high-impact, global user experiences. You’ll contribute to design system evolution, collaborate with engineering leadership, and help push