UX & Front End Engineer, AI

Elastic; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 111,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Flexible schedule

Vacation days

Donation matching

Volunteer hours

Parental leave

Job summary

Elastic, the Search AI Company, seeks a front-end design lead to translate complex AI processes into intuitive interfaces. You will build scalable UI libraries for generative AI interactions using React and TypeScript, while prototyping new human-AI collaboration patterns and ensuring accessibility in line with EUI.

Collaborate with UX designers, PMs, and AI backend engineers to test and refine AI workflows, optimize performance for real-time responses, and integrate with internal services and

Qualifications

• Experience creating UIs for GenAI applications, including conversational interfaces and dynamic prompt builders.
• Strong frontend expertise with React, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS/Sass, with modular architecture.
• Experience with asynchronous UI state, WebSockets and SSE for streaming responses.
• Background in UX/UI design, wireframing, design systems, and rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI processes into intuitive front-end interfaces.
• Build and maintain scalable, accessible UI component libraries for generative AI interactions.
• Prototype novel interaction patterns for conversational AI and agent workflows.
• Optimize UI performance for real-time AI responses and streaming latency.
• Connect front-end to internal services and RAG endpoints.
• Collaborate with UX, PMs and backend engineers to refine AI workflows.
• Ensure accessibility and alignment with Elastic's design system (EUI).
• Implement front-end analytics to monitor UX metrics.

Skills

AI UX Design

Front-End Mastery

TypeScript

React

Web performance

Accessibility

WCAG

Design Systems

API Integration

Storybook

Tools

Figma

Storybook

REST API

GraphQL

HTML5

CSS/Sass

TypeScript

ESRE

EUI

Job description

What is The Role:

Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale - unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data - securing and protecting private information more effectively - Elastic's complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What You Will Be Doing:

• AI UI/UX Design & Implementation: Translate complex generative and agentic AI processes into intuitive, responsive, and engaging front-end interfaces.
• Front-End Architecture: Design, build, and maintain front-end UI component libraries. These libraries should be scalable, accessible, and reusable and will be created for generative AI interactions. You will use modern frameworks like React and TypeScript.
• Human-AI Interaction Patterns: Prototype and implement novel interaction patterns for conversational AI, agent execution visibility (thought logs, tool calls), prompt systems, and rich dynamic outputs.
• Performance & Streaming Optimization: Optimize UI performance for real-time AI responses, managing token streaming latency, async state management, and optimistic UI updates.
• Enterprise Grounding & Integration: Connect front-end interfaces to internal services. This includes Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) endpoints. It also includes Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE) and agent orchestration APIs.
• User-Centered Collaboration: Partner closely with UX designers, product managers, and AI backend engineers to iteratively test and refine AI workflows based on real user feedback.
• Accessibility & Design Systems: Ensure all front-end interfaces strictly adhere to web accessibility standards (WCAG) and align seamlessly with Elastic's core design system (EUI).
• AI Observability & UX Analytics: Implement front-end tracking to monitor user satisfaction, prompt effectiveness, interaction latency, and interface usability.
• Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for UI component systems, front-end architecture, and design pattern guidelines.

What You Bring:

• Proven Success in AI UX: Recent experience creating user interfaces for GenAI applications is important. This includes working with conversational interfaces, dynamic prompt builders, and complex agent workflows.
• Front-End Mastery: Deep expertise in modern TypeScript, JavaScript, React, HTML5, and CSS/Sass, with an emphasis on modular architecture.
• State Management & Streaming: Deep experience managing complex asynchronous UI state, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events (SSE) for streaming LLM responses.
• UX/UI Design Foundations: Proficient background or active practice in user experience design, wireframing, design systems, and rapid prototyping.
• An Appetite to Master Elastic: A solid desire to learn and leverage the Elasticsearch Relevance Engine (ESRE), Elastic UI (EUI), and the broader Elastic ecosystem.
• AI Framework & API Integration: Experience with integrating front-end systems with AI/LLM backend services and orchestration tools (e.g., LangGraph, REST/GraphQL APIs).
• Design System Integration: Experience extending and contributing to enterprise design systems and component documentation tools like Storybook.
• Web Performance & Accessibility: Knowledge of web performance optimization techniques, cross-browser compatibility, and WCAG accessibility guidelines.
• Design Tooling: Hands-on experience with modern design and handoff tools (e.g., Figma).

Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People:

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you're looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn't matter if you're just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions, and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with a minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Security & Privacy Responsibilities:

Take ownership of protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of organizational data and systems by following applicable privacy and security policies, standards, and procedures. Ensure that all individual contributions follow Elastic's Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF). Proactively participate in mandatory role-based training to ensure personal technical execution consistently aligns with the highest standards of data protection, data privacy, and system resilience.

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

We welcome individuals with disabilities and strive to create an accessible and inclusive experience for all individuals. To request an accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email [e-mail]. We will reply to your request within 24 business hours of submission.

Applicants have rights under Federal Employment Laws and can view the following posters linked below:

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster

Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA) Poster

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Compensation for this role is in the form of base salary. This role does not have a variable compensation component.

The typical starting salary range for new hires in this role is listed below. In select locations (including Seattle WA, Los Angeles CA, the San Francisco Bay Area CA, and the New York City Metro Area), an alternate range may apply as specified below.

These ranges represent the lowest to highest salary we reasonably and in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the ranges may be modified in the future.

An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs.

Elastic believes that employees should have the opportunity to share in the value that we create together for our shareholders. Therefore, in addition to cash compensation, this role is currently eligible to participate in Elastic's stock program. Our total rewards package also includes a company-matched 401k with dollar-for-dollar matching up to 6% of eligible earnings, along with a range of other benefits offered with a holistic emphasis on employee well-being.

The typical starting salary range for this role is:

$110,900-$175,500 USD

The typical starting salary range for this role in the select locations listed above is:

$133,200-$210,700 USD