UX Engineer, XR

Google•San Jose, CA

3h•$132,000 - $189,000

About The Position

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our UX Engineers are versatile, passionate, and driven to advance the goal 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. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap—the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices; it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences. The XR UX team works on cutting-edge technologies to enable the next generation of XR experiences and devices. We design, prototype, and research the experiences and interactions that set the direction for Google's emerging products across the spectrum of XR devices.For decades, the computing revolution has reshaped our world driven by breakthroughs in compute, connectivity, mobile, and now, AI. Google's XR team is at the forefront of the next major leap – the convergence of AI and XR. This is more than just new devices – it's about reimagining how we interact with the world around us. We're building a future where lightweight XR devices like smart glasses and headsets pair with helpful AI to augment human intelligence, offering personalized, conversational, and contextually aware experiences.

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 of experience 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.
Experience in iterative design and delivery methodologies within the XR (AR/VR/MR) space or Android.
Experience communicating complex concepts clearly across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
Experience working across organizational and functional boundaries to prioritize opportunities and mitigate constraints.

Responsibilities

Build high-fidelity, functional prototypes using real data to validate product hypotheses and drive insights.
Develop and maintain prototyping infrastructure used by XR and our partners.
Partner with designers, researchers, and cross-functional teams to resolve ambiguity and define technical requirements.
Apply an inventive mindset to technical challenges, finding ways to bridge gaps between design goals and model capabilities.
Foster productive partnerships with designers, researchers, and leads to align technical execution with user needs.