Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
- Experience with Android UI prototyping or development.
- Programming experience in one of the following: Kotlin, Java.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
- Experience prototyping for devices.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to be adaptable and proactive.
- Demonstrated collaboration skills with other UXers, PM, Engineering.
- Strong design process, interaction, and motion design prototyping or implementation skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills, adaptable, proactive, and willingness to take ownership.
About The Job
At Google, we follow a simple but vital premise: "Focus on the user and all else will follow." Google’s UX Engineers are versatile and passionate about taking on new problems to push technology forward. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products used by millions of people every day.
Google User Experience (UX) is made up of multi-disciplinary teams of UX Designers, Researchers, Writers, Content Strategists, Program Managers, and Engineers: we care deeply about the people who use our products. The UX team plays an integral part in gathering insights about the attitudes, emotions, and behaviors of people who use our products to inspire and inform design. We collaborate closely with each other and with engineering and product management to create industry-leading products that deliver value for the people who use them, and for Google’s businesses.
As a UX Engineer, you'll work on the front end of our products in a challenging, fast-paced environment, helping to bridge UX best practices and production execution. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user-facing technologies to enable efficient, high-quality execution and communications and launch innovative features to a global audience.
As an Android UX Engineer you will help to envision the future of Wear OS via rapid prototyping, iteration, and invention. You'll be part of a focused, high-leverage team that designs and prototypes the present and future Wear OS User Experience.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,000-$178,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the motion design team to envision and prototype a premium and scalable motion experience for Wear OS.
- Work with UX research to develop deep user understanding and plan/support testing/validation.
- Be comfortable in ambiguous product settings where problems and user needs aren't inherently well defined.
- Form partnerships with PM/Engineering counterparts to distill requirements and work together to creatively push boundaries of technology on behalf of user needs.
Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.
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