Google

Senior UX Engineer, Search AI

Google$159K — $230K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
  • Experience in application development for web, iOS, Android, etc.
  • Hands-on experience building or prototyping for Web and Native Mobile platforms.
  • Knowledge of UI animation mechanics, gesture dynamics, and rendering performance.

Responsibilities

  • Author production-grade front-end code and reusable components across Web and Native Mobile.
  • Create Live Experiments and interactive sandboxes to assess user interaction.
  • Develop and maintain tooling, pipelines, and frameworks to aid partner teams.
  • Systemize motion tokens and transitions for scalable governance in the Search Design System.
  • Lead technical exploration of ambiguous interactions, collaborating with UX, SWE, and Product teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage for employees and their families.
  • Generous paid time off and holiday policies.
  • Retirement savings plan with employer matching contributions.
  • Access to wellness programs and mental health resources.
  • Opportunity to participate in employee resource groups and networking.
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 6 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
  • Experience in application development in one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, or XR).
  • Experience building or prototyping across Web and Native Mobile platforms (iOS/SwiftUI or Android/Jetpack Compose)
  • Experience with UI animation mechanics, gesture dynamics, spring physics, cubic-bezier curves, and rendering performance.

Preferred qualifications:
  • 7 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
  • 6 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
  • Experience architecting design token pipelines, developer harnesses, or design system component libraries.
  • Experience integrating AI models, LLMs, prompt engineering, generative UI workflows, or agentic developer tools into daily engineering workflows.


About the job

At Google, we "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Our UX Engineers are versatile, passionate, and driven to advance the vision 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.

As a Senior UX Engineer on the motion.code team you will help drive motion excellence in Search, bridging design intent and production software through living Google3 code and open developer pipelines. You will work on complex technical issues and you will have a playground to advance modern Search. In this role, you will bring deep AI fluency to your everyday workflow, experimenting across Web, iOS, and Android to translate bleeding-edge AI interaction models into performant, production-ready code alongside motion designers, UX leads, and Search Software Engineers.
In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information - any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful experience that people around the world rely on. In joining the Search team, you'll have an opportunity to make an impact on billions of people globally.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Author production-grade front-end code and reusable Google3 components across Web (TypeScript, HTML5, modern CSS, Web Animations API) and Native Mobile (iOS/SwiftUI and Android/Jetpack Compose).
  • Build Live Experiments (LEs) and interactive sandboxes that validate user feel, frame rates, and latency under real-world LLM streaming conditions.
  • Develop and maintain mo.co.labs tooling, pipelines, and frameworks that empower partner teams, uplevel cross-functional craft, and dramatically shorten the design-to-implementation timeline.
  • Systemize motion tokens, container transforms, and fluid transition frameworks into the Search Design System (SDS) for scalable governance.
  • Provide technical leadership on ambiguous 0-to-1 interaction explorations, partnering across UX, SWE, and Product teams.


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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