UX Engineer, AI User Experience, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract) in London

This is a 12 month Fixed-Term Contract position.

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 any of the platforms/areas (e.g., web, iOS, Android, CompDes, XR).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with the latest web standards, and latest iterations of those technologies (such as JS/ES6, HTML5, CSS, REST, and mobile web).
• Experience with React, Lit, Angular, or a similar framework.
• Experience leading the design and implementation of UIs and technical frameworks.
• Experience with “vibe coding” approaches and toolkits, with an understanding of the best practices in prompt engineering.
• Understanding of how to apply AI to accelerate UX and engineering workflows.
• Understanding of fundamental web technologies (e.g., JavaScript, HTML, CSS).

About the job:

The AI User Experience (AIUX) team inspires and accelerates people‑centric futures for emerging technologies across Google DeepMind. We work across disciplines, answering difficult user questions, prototyping, and sharing new UX practices with everyone. As a User Experience (UX) Engineer, you will drive technical strategy and execution within the team, partnering with leadership across UX, product, and engineering. You will identify opportunities, advocate for technical investments, and help set a goal for our team, inspiring teams as a whole to do what’s best for our users. In this role, you will work closely with UX designers, UX researchers, project managers, and software engineers on iterative cycles of design, rapid prototyping, and user research. Your work will directly influence the future of their AI products in hardware devices, on screens, and everywhere machine learning tools are used.

Artificial intelligence will be one humanity’s most transformative inventions. At Google DeepMind, we are a pioneering AI lab with exceptional interdisciplinary teams focused on advancing AI development to solve complex global challenges and accelerate high‑quality product innovation for billions of users. We use our technologies for widespread public benefit and scientific discovery, ensuring safety and ethics are always our highest priority. We are pushing the boundaries across multiple domains. Our global teams offer diverse learning opportunities and varied career pathways for those driven to achieve exceptional results through collective effort.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a subject matter expert for the broader organization, embracing emerging standards while establishing best practices to push the limits of what browsers, devices, and AI systems can do.
• Act as a cross‑functional liaison to drive consensus among UX Designers, Researchers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers.
• Architect versatile front‑end solutions that solve high‑complexity problems and answer critical research questions.
• Deliver on large portions of projects by writing code, while influencing product areas stakeholders to align on outcomes that benefit the user.
• Design and develop the front‑ends of user‑facing products, bringing a human‑centered approach to brilliant research while ensuring engineering and design goals meet user needs.
• Lead the creation of high‑fidelity prototypes to support user studies and decision‑making across the entire development cycle from early explorations to product release.

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.