Senior Staff Design Technologist, AI Systems

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.

As a Design Technologist on the AI systems team you will engineer the "how" behind the next generation of AI.

In this role you won't be polishing production code for launched products; you will be writing the code that proves an idea is worth building in the first place. You will turn abstract strategies into tangible realities, serving as the bridge between the "what if" of design and the "what is possible" of engineering.

You will work across modalities and models to explore the frontier of agentic interaction. In this role, code is your medium for design. You will build the functional scaffolding that allows us to test, break, and refine the behaviors of intelligent systems before they ever reach a roadmap.

The Core team builds the technical foundation behind Google’s flagship products. We are owners and advocates for the underlying design elements, developer platforms, product components, and infrastructure at Google. These are the essential building blocks for excellent, safe, and coherent experiences for our users and drive the pace of innovation for every developer. We look across Google’s products to build central solutions, break down technical barriers and strengthen existing systems. As the Core team, we have a mandate and a unique opportunity to impact important technical decisions across the company.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $236000 - $330000 (USD) + 25% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Deliver innovative, engaging prototypes using the latest in front-end technologies.
• Advise, collaborate with, and synthesize feedback from UX designers and researchers.
• Fulfill several project requests simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Serve as a mentor for junior UX engineers and peers.
• Assist front-end engineers with final development of Google products

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in a technical, UX, or design setting, or related experience.
• 8 years of experience in front-end development on one or more platforms (e.g. web, iOS, Android), technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience integrating LLMs or Agentic tools into web-based prototypes.
• Experience with vibe coding tools, including AI Studio, Cursor, Antigravity, Firebase Studio.

Preferred qualifications:

• 7 years of experience managing projects.
  
• Experience in motion design related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.
• Experience driving system thinking, strategy and AI adoption across UX workflows across multiple product areas.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: San Francisco, CA, USA; Boulder, CO, USA; New York, NY, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.