Staff UX Engineer, iOS Development, Search

Google; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a versatile UX Engineer to bridge design and engineering, developing production-quality features and prototypes that advance user experiences. You will work with cross-functional partners to turn insights into tangible products and iteratively refine interfaces across iOS and web platforms.

In this role, you’ll ship features in collaboration with research, design, and engineering teams, driving polish, animation quality, and user-centered outcomes for broad-scale products used

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, HCI, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of front-end or UX engineering experience, including 3 years using SwiftUI.
• Experience collaborating with UX Design teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Test concepts for iteration, research, and validation with prototypes across a portfolio of features.
• Partner with senior team members and collaborate across functional teams.
• Lead or contribute to projects with a system-wide design mindset across platforms.

Skills

UX Engineering

Front-end Development

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

SwiftUI

Job description

This role may also be located in our Playa Vista, CA campus.

Applicants in the County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County 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: Mountain View, CA, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in front-end development or UX engineering, including 3 years of experience using SwiftUI.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical leadership and managing projects.
• Experience partnering with UX Design teams.
• Familiarity working across full tech stacks and production environments.
• Understanding of UX practices and processes, including user-centered design and research.

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 direction 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 part of this role, you will sit somewhere between a traditional iOS developer and UX engineer, shipping production-quality features in partnership with both engineering and design teams. In this role, you will need a strong knowledge of iOS development as well as experience working with research and design teams to define and deliver new features, test new concepts and assist with final implementation. You will work closely with interaction and motion designers to create a compelling interactive perspective, exploring novel interactions, building testable prototypes for usability studies, setting the bar for polish and animation quality, and assisting with final production implementation.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Test concepts for iteration, research, and validation while conceiving and delivering innovative, engaging prototypes and driving explorations of experiences across a portfolio of features and products in the app.
• Partner with senior members of the team, promote standards, and integrate changes into guidelines, and collaborate effectively across functional teams.
• Lead or contribute to key projects, ensuring a holistic systems-thinking approach, advocating for user needs across platforms and applications, and fostering a system-wide design mindset within the team.

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 .