Senior UX Engineer, Jigsaw

Google • New York, NY

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About The Position

At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.

As a UX Engineer, you'll work as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

In this role, you will actively write code and build prototypes designed for real-world usage, working shoulder-to-shoulder with our talented software engineers. You will also take a leadership role in shaping nuanced and intuitive Artificial Intelligence (AI) interactions, collaborating closely with Jigsaw's expert research and design team.

Jigsaw [https://jigsaw.google.com/] is an incubator within Google that builds technologies to give people greater agency in the world around them. Across the globe, we're more connected than ever before, to information and to each other, yet many of us feel disconnected from the decisions and systems that affect our lives. We believe that AI can bridge this divide between the desire to shape our world and the ability to do so.

Jigsaw offers mission-driven work within a nimble interdisciplinary team, connections to academia and civil society, and a quick path to taking technology public.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary UX/Product teams (e.g., motion, interaction, UX research, etc.) on technical implementation.
• Experience in software development and developing web-based applications.

Nice To Haves

• 7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
• Experience and insight into the latest AI capabilities and vibe coding tools.
• Ability to collaborate on an interdisciplinary, cross functional team, especially acting as a connector between design and engineering.
• Excellent understanding of the intersection between technology and social systems, including governance, health, and economic insecurity.
• Portfolio of innovative AI interaction designs.

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation of innovative and engaging Artificial Intelligence (AI) prototypes, guiding them through a changing development lifecycle from exploration to a compelling Proof of Concept (PoC).
• Design and build thoughtful, novel AI interactions that translate the subtle nuances of human collaboration into sensitive and reliable technical solutions.
• Serve as a key connector between User Experience (UX) design, research, and software engineering, working iteratively with internal and external partners to bridge the gap between human needs and technology.
• Stay at the forefront of the latest AI capabilities and lead by example in the use of AI enabled design and coding tools.
• Support the project's narrative by preparing technical documentation and demos that inspire Google leadership and external partners.

What This Job Offers

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