UX Engineer, Search Design System

In most instances, this position requires in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design setting, or a related experience.
• 6 years of experience in front end development or UX engineering.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Preferred qualifications:

• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, design environment, or similar.
• 7 years of technical leadership experience.
• Experience with vibe coding tools, including AI Studio, Cursor, Antigravity, Firebase Studio.
• Familiarity working across full tech stacks and production environments.

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. Join Google Search AI and work at the intersection of industry leading global scale. We apply breakthrough research, leveraging models like Gemini, to launch high-impact products that help billions ask any question and get things done. If you want to drive the future of AI in Search and work with experts to deliver tangible, global impact and continuous innovation, this is the place. Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
• Architect prompt engineering pipelines and middleware layers to ensure LLMs consistently create output that perfectly maps to UI components.
• Mentor mid-to-executive engineers and designers, establishing web engineering excellence standards, contributing to core libraries and defining the organizational playbook for AI product development.
• Partner with executive members of the team, define and promote standards, and integrate changes into design system and workflow guidelines.
• Apply an inventive mindset to technical issues, finding ways to bridge gaps between design goal and model capabilities when standard solutions don't yet exist.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA.