Senior UX Engineer, Chrome AI Innovation
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- Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
- Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
- Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
- Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
- Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
- Holidays: 13 paid days per year
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
- Experience in application development in one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).
- Experience architecting and delivering applications.
- Include a portfolio, website, or any other relevant link to your work in your resume (providing a viewable link or access instructions).
Preferred qualifications:
- 7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
- 6 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
- Experience in motion design and setting a high bar for visual quality, including physics-based patterns and design systems.
- Experience building on browser-based tools like chrome extensions, react, or electron.
- Experience with full-stack development and rapid UX prototyping.
- Exceptional visual craft, systems thinking, and a sharp eye for clarity, with a strong bias for fast, creative experimentation and iteration.
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 home, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools to shape their web experience - and change the way they think about computing.
Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000-$231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end craft of key AI-native browser surfaces, shipping high-fidelity UI with complex user interactions and functionality that defines how next-generation AI-first software should look and behave in Chrome.
- Drive rapid prototyping and real-time collaboration within the disco vehicle to explore novel interaction concepts, translating ambitious design outlooks into distinctive, testable experiences built for future product scale and integration.
- Partner deeply with research, design, and product, as well as core partners like DeepMind, Google Labs, and Creative Lab, to scope and build concepts and rapidly iterate based on user feedback toward graduation into core Chrome.
- Set the technical standard for front-end craft, polish, and animation quality across the team, while contributing to the evolution of foundational code and tooling to accelerate AI-assisted engineering workflows for future product scale.
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