UX Engineer, Chrome Desktop
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 4 years of experience in front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
- Experience in application development in at least one platform/area (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).
- Experience with front-end development including Typescript, CSS, and HTML.
Preferred qualifications:
- 5 years of experience developing responsive, adaptive, and performant websites and applications.
- 3 years of experience as a front-end developer, UX Engineer, creative or design technologist, or in a prototyping design environment.
- Experience with ES2015+ or TypeScript and modern libraries/frameworks (e.g., Node, Lit, React, Angular).
- Experience in one or more of the following: Swift, Kotlin, Dart, Python, Ruby, Java, or C++.
- Experience with vector and motion graphics, including SVG, HTML5 Canvas, and animation using JavaScript and CSS (e.g., GreenSock, d3, ProcessingJS, and Web Animation API).
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.
The team develops products that help users connect, communicate, and collaborate with others.
Chrome is dedicated to building a better, more open web. We’re focused on making a better browser (on both desktop and mobile) to help users take advantage of all the web has to offer in a safe and secure way.Chrome is available across all major platforms — iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS. We also built Chrome as an open source project so the entire web ecosystem could benefit from the latest innovations in speed, simplicity and security.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $129,000-$185,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. 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
- Advise, collaborate, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
- Collaborate with other engineers on final implementation and polish.
- Meet accessibility standards.
- Write and review code in Chrome's codebase.
- Build a wide range of prototypes, and help the organization to accelerate overall exploration effort.
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