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 drive progress and vision for design teams. They’re comfortable wearing many hats and get excited about working across discipline lines to develop products and prototypes that bring new ideas to life.

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 as part of a UX team in a challenging, fast-paced environment. You’ll demonstrate your creativity, analytical skills, and knowledge of user facing technologies to create prototypes that identify the best product experiences, launch innovative features, build tools that accelerate UX teams, bridge between design and engineering discussions, and enable efficient, high quality execution.

The YouTube (YT) Technology and Insights team is responsible for internal enterprise software solutions powering the YT Business Organization. This includes full-stack first-party software, second-party instances (e.g., built by Google, customized for YouTube), and third-party solutions.

At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting-edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.

• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from User Experience (UX) designers and researchers.

• Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.

• Serve as a mentor for early career UX engineers and peers.

• Lead the charge in AI innovation.

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 a platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, Comp Des, XR).

• Experience with vibe coding tools, including AI Studio, Cursor, Antigravity, or Firebase Studio.

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 working with hosted back-ends (e.g., Firebase) to power prototypes.

• Familiarity working across full tech stacks and production environments.

• knowledge of UX motion and visual design, and visual storytelling.