User Experience Engineer, Jigsaw

Google•New York, NY

6d•$132,000 - $190,000

About The Position

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about pushing technology forward, comfortable working across discipline lines to develop products used by millions. You will join our multi-disciplinary UX team, collaborating with Engineering and Product Management, using user insights to create industry-leading products. Working on the front end in a challenging, fast-paced environment, you will bridge UX best practices and production execution. You’ll use your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to enable efficient, high-quality execution and launch innovative features to a global audience. 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 homes, businesses, universities and nonprofits around the world the tools that shape their web experience -- and changing the way they think about computing. In this role, you will design and build innovative user experiences that showcase Jigsaw's use of AI to address societal challenges. This role will focus on advocating Jigsaw's work with external audiences, collaborating closely with our marketing and engineering teams to create compelling, interactive demos and experiences. You will have the opportunity to design and build new experiences, rapidly prototype using the latest AI tools, and work cross functionally. 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.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
Experience in application development in at least one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Nice To Haves

5 years developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.

Responsibilities

Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.
Meet high accessibility standards.
Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.