UX Engineer Co-op

About HqO

HqO is connecting real estate to the people with an asset agnostic, cross-property suite of powerful applications and services that foster best-in-class, dynamic end-user experiences. HqO’s REX (Real Estate Experience) Platform assesses the health and performance of a person’s experience within a physical space while providing the necessary tools for operators to manage and optimize it, all from one central location.

HqO has been trusted to power 400 million+ square feet across 700+ properties in 32 countries, and we’re backed by some of the world’s most prominent VC and real estate companies as we continue to grow rapidly across the world.

We’re driven by our core values of LET’S GO (Learning, Excellence, Truth, Service, Goodness, Ownership) which define our culture and push us to do our best work every day. If you want to join a fast-growing, highly collaborative, and supportive team that is at the forefront of real estate transformation, we’re the company for you.

We're hiring a Summer 2026 UX Engineer Co-op to join our Product Development team in Boston, reporting to the Head of Product and Design and embedded day-to-day with Design and Engineering. This is a hands‑on hybrid role at the seam between design and code — you'll spend your days in Claude Design, Claude Code, Linear, and our shared component library, helping us ship a more consistent, polished, and accessible REX Platform.

A UX Engineer at HqO is the person who keeps craft high in both prototypes and production. You'll own contributions to our shared component library, maintain the UI skills files that guide how Claude builds UI for us, build polished high‑fidelity prototypes that product managers and customers can actually click through, pair with front‑end engineers on production UI work, and run design QA so the product matches the spec — pixels, motion, and accessibility included.

This position is a hybrid role based in our Boston office, with a minimum of three days per week (Monday–Thursday) onsite. It is a full‑time, paid summer co‑op (approximately June–December 2026, flexible to your academic calendar).

You’ll own a mix of component library work, prototype and production craft, design QA, and design automations. After a ramp‑up period pairing with our designers and front‑end engineers, you’ll independently drive most of these deliverables, with support from Product, Design, and Engineering leadership.

• Own our shared component library. Build and maintain components in our shared design system (shared‑packages, design tokens, Storybook stories), keep our Figma design system and the code library in lockstep, audit coverage and prune duplicates, and document usage so PMs, designers, and engineers can self‑serve.
• Own our UI skills files. Maintain the Claude skills that guide how we build UI at HqO — component patterns, naming conventions, accessibility defaults, design system usage. Keep them accurate as the system evolves so every PM, designer, and engineer using Claude Code or Claude Design gets the same on‑brand, on‑spec output.
• Help build out our design automations. Partner with Product and Design on the AI‑assisted workflows that connect design and code — design‑to‑code, token sync, design QA assistants, Claude‑powered design ops. Tweak prompts, refine templates, and ship small automations that compound week over week.
• Help build polished, high‑fidelity prototypes. Partner with PMs and Designers to turn early concepts into working prototypes — sometimes with real data, sometimes mocked — that can be put in front of customers and stakeholders. Use Claude Design, Claude Code, and our shared component library to move from idea to clickable in hours, not weeks.
• Ship polished production front‑end work alongside engineers. Pick up well‑scoped UI tickets in Linear — empty states, micro‑interactions, form polish, responsive fixes, new component rollouts — and get them through code review and into the Monthly Release Train.
• Run design QA and accessibility audits. Sit between the design spec and the implemented UI on each release. Flag drift between spec and build, audit components…