Senior Technical Design Researcher, Pixel AI Systems

Google • Mountain View, CA

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About The Position

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." As a User Experience
Researcher (UXR), you make this possible. You will join our multi-disciplinary
UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, to gather
insights and create industry-leading products.

You’ll play a critical role in helping your team understand user needs and will
drive impact at all stages of product development, ensuring products are useful,
usable, and helpful. You will explore user behaviors and motivations by
conducting primary research, including: field studies, interviews, diary
studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis. You will
also grow within a supportive UXR community offering mentorship, regular
meetups, and exclusive internal tools.

In this role, you will act as a critical thought partner redefining the
smartphone's role in the next paradigm of personal compute. By collaborating
with different innovation teams across Google, you will define what intelligence
means for the future of the phone by co-designing experiences across the full AI
stack. You will build future-forward Pixel prototypes. These testable artifacts
will seamlessly integrate advanced multimodal models, hardware sensing, and
underlying compute capabilities. By evaluating these experiences with users, you
will directly influence our long-term hardware strategy and pioneer AI-native
interactions. To accelerate your impact, you will deeply embed generative AI
tooling and agentic workflows into your practice.

Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful. Our Devices & Services team combines the best of Google
AI, Software, and Hardware to create radically helpful experiences for users. We
research, design, and develop new technologies and hardware to make our user's
interaction with computing faster, seamless, and more powerful. Whether finding
new ways to capture and sense the world around us, advancing form factors, or
improving interaction methods, the Devices & Services team is making people's
lives better through technology.

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 [https://careers.google.com/benefits/].

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in an applied research setting (e.g., product or academic), or similar.
• Experience with research methods (e.g., usability, studies, contextual inquires, 1:1 interviews, unmoderated research studies).

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or PhD in Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Science, Statistics, Psychology, Anthropology, or a related field.
• 5 years of experience conducting UX research on products and working with executive leadership (e.g., Director level and above).
• 3 years of experience working with designers, researchers, engineers, content strategists, and product managers throughout the design process (e.g., creating user flows, wireframes, and building user interface mockups/prototypes).
• 3 years of experience managing projects, and working in a large, matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.
• Own project priorities in alignment with larger product goals, and oversee allocation of resources within the project.
• Drive ideas to improve products and services through research-driven insights and recommendations.
• Lead teams to define and evaluate product, service, and ecosystem impact.
• Own goal and strategy discussions through research by analyzing, consolidating, or synthesizing what is known about user, product, service, or business needs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level