Senior UX Engineer, Chrome Desktop
Summary
Develops prototypes and features for the Chrome desktop browser, bridging design and engineering to build user-facing tools. Work involves rapid prototyping and coding within the Chrome codebase to enhance user experience.
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.
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.
US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
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- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and prototype new features that enhance the user experience on Chrome.
- Model a feedback culture by providing and receiving constructive feedback.
- Navigate ambiguous product settings, using your problem-solving skills to identify and address user needs.
- Write and review code in Chrome's codebase.
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 or more platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).
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 in designing, prototyping, and delivering high-quality user-facing features from idea to launch.
- Frontend development with backend integrations and rapid UX prototyping experience.
- Ability to translate mocks and wireframes into well-structured and responsive user interfaces.