UX Engineer: Design System & AI-Powered Frontend

Google Inc.; Mountain View, New York (CA, NY); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google UX Engineers craft industry-leading interfaces, bridging UX best practices with production execution for a global audience. You’ll work across disciplines with Engineering and Product Management, delivering high-quality frontend features in a fast-paced setting.

You will mentor engineers and designers, influence standards, and contribute to core libraries while exploring advanced AI-enabled UI development at scale.

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.

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

Frontend development

UX engineering

Decision making

Stakeholder influence

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

AI Studio

Cursor

Antigravity

Firebase Studio

Job description

Google UX Engineers craft industry-leading interfaces, bridging UX best practices with production execution for a global audience. You’ll work across disciplines with Engineering and Product Management, delivering high-quality frontend features in a fast-paced setting.

You will mentor engineers and designers, influence standards, and contribute to core libraries while exploring advanced AI-enabled UI development at scale.