UX Engineer, Search Design System
Google· Internet & Cloud Services· Aug 28, 2026 · 2mo ago
Mountain View, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA
In office
Full-time
Staff
$172K–$230K est.
8+ years exp
Job description
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.
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: $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 robust 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 challenges, finding "hacky-yet-robust" ways to bridge gaps between design goals and model capabilities when standard solutions don't yet exist.
• 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.
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
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