UX Engineer, Platform and Service Experience, Google Cloud

Google; Town of Montana (WI); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Job summary

Google Cloud is seeking a Mid-level UX Engineer to advance Platform and Service Experience. You will prototype features, author agentic skills, and partner with UX Researchers to evaluate AI-driven UX in production-grade interfaces.

Joining a multi-disciplinary team in Sunnyvale, you will bridge design and engineering across Web and other platforms, drive prototypes on CDS components, and help scale AI-enabled experiences for customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in front-end development, UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience in front-end development and application prototyping using TypeScript, JavaScript, and Angular.
• Experience in application development in one or more platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Responsibilities

• Author bespoke skills, tool definitions, and orchestration flows that enable AI agents to safely solve complex cloud infrastructure problems.
• Design and prototype benchmarking harnesses with UX Researchers to evaluate agent accuracy and usability.
• Co-architect schema-driven UI primitives to establish dynamic visual building blocks used by autonomous backend agents.
• Build high-fidelity, spec-driven prototypes on standard Google3 architectures and CDS components.
• Drive technical alignment across UX, Research, Product, and Software Engineering, while establishing UX and Engineering standards across the Cloud Foundations community.

Skills

Front-end development

TypeScript

JavaScript

Angular

Prototyping

LLM orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Angular

Lit/Web Components

React

Job description

UX Engineer, Platform and Service Experience, Google Cloud

Location

Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Experience Level

Mid

Overview

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

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
• 5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
• Experience with component-based web frameworks (e.g., Angular, Lit/Web Components, or React) and modern front-end architectures.
• Experience authoring agentic skills, orchestrating LLM chains, and integrating AI APIs into production or prototype systems.
• Experience partnering with UX Researchers and Data Scientists to evaluate, benchmark, and iterate on AI/agentic system behavior and UX quality.
• Experience with enterprise accessibility standards, typography, responsive layout systems, micro-interactions, and motion design.

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.
• Bridge design and engineering to ensure efficient, high-quality execution.

Platform and Service Experience (PSX) crafts experiences that simplify, inspire, and expand the use of Google Cloud technology. The PSX UX Engineering team bridges the gap between ambitious design goals, AI-first capabilities, and production-grade engineering across Cloud Foundations. Operating at the intersection of Design, Research, and Engineering, you will build interactive prototypes, author agentic skills and tools, co-develop evaluation frameworks for agentic systems, and deliver production-grade user experiences across Google Cloud. In this role, you will operate as a technical catalyst, moving fluidly between authoring intelligent agents and skills, establishing evaluation testbeds with UX Research, prototyping novel server-driven UI (SDUI) patterns, and landing production-grade code in Google3.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization's ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google's cutting-edge technology and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

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

US Pay Range: $132,000 - $189,000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Author bespoke skills, tool definitions, and orchestration flows that enable AI agents to safely solve complex cloud infrastructure problems.
• Design and prototype benchmarking harnesses with UX Researchers to evaluate agent accuracy, usability, and ergonomic fit for enterprise users.
• Co-architect schema-driven UI primitives to establish the dynamic visual building blocks that autonomous backend agents use to communicate with users.
• Build high-fidelity, spec-driven prototypes on standard Google3 architectures and cloud design system (CDS) components.
• Drive technical alignment across UX, Research, Product, and Software Engineering, while establishing UX and Engineering standards across the Cloud Foundations community.

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