UX Engineer, Google Home

Socket.dev; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a versatile UX Engineer to transform ideas into usable prototypes, bridging design and engineering across disciplines. You\'ll work with a multi-disciplinary team to create prototypes that define product experiences and launch innovative features.

The role emphasizes accessibility, collaboration with UX researchers, and mentoring peers as part of a fast-paced environment driving the web and home products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping experience.
• Experience in app development across platforms (web, iOS, Android, design/creative, XR).

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

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience in application development in one or more platforms/areas (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
• 5 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.

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.

The web is what you make of it and our team is helping the world make more of the web. From open-source pros to user-experience extraordinaires, we develop products that help users connect, communicate and collaborate with others. Our consumer products and cloud platforms are giving millions of users at homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience and changing the way they think about computing.

The Google Home team focuses on hardware, software and services offerings for the home, ranging from thermostats to smart displays. The Home team researches, designs, and develops new technologies and hardware to make users’ homes more helpful. Our mission is the helpful home: to create a home that cares for the people inside it and the world around it.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $132000 - $189000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

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.