UX Engineer: Search Design System & AI Pipelines

Google; New York (NY); On-site; USD 188,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a UX Engineer for the Search Design System to join a multidisciplinary team across UX, engineering and product management. You will work on front-end development, contribute to design system components, and ship user-facing features at scale.

The role requires strong front-end expertise (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), 6–8 years in UX or technical design, and a Bachelor's or equivalent. You will mentor others, influence strategy, and help bridge design goals with production constraints

Qualifications

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

Front end development

UX engineering

HTML CSS JavaScript

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Firebase Studio

AI Studio

Cursor

Antigravity

Job description

Google is seeking a UX Engineer for the Search Design System to join a multidisciplinary team across UX, engineering and product management. You will work on front-end development, contribute to design system components, and ship user-facing features at scale.

The role requires strong front-end expertise (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), 6–8 years in UX or technical design, and a Bachelor's or equivalent. You will mentor others, influence strategy, and help bridge design goals with production constraints