Senior Creative Technologist, Search

Senior Creative Technologist, Search –
Google

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Note:

By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:
San Francisco, CA, USA;
Mountain View, CA, USA;
New York, NY, USA
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• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of experience in front‑end development, technical UX design, or prototyping.
• Experience with web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Type Script.
• Experience with vibe coding tools, including AI Studio, Cursor, Antigravity, or Firebase Studio.
• Experience in motion design related to physics, patterns, and visual design elements.

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Human‑Computer Interaction, Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in technical leadership and managing projects.
• Experience developing with front‑end native iOS technologies (Swift) and Android.
• Experience working with front‑end engineering teams for native app user interfaces.
• Experience working with hosted back‑ends (e.g., Firebase, Supabase) to power prototypes.
• Familiarity working across full tech stacks and production environments.

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.

User Experience (UX) Engineers are the synthesis of design and development. They take Google's most innovative product concepts and bring them to life in an effort to push the boundaries of user interface design. Google is known for its design aesthetic and technical know-how.

In this role, you'll need different types of skills to develop the next generation of products. You will partner with researchers and designers to define and deliver new features, test new concepts, and assist with final implementation. You will work closely with interaction and motion designers to create a compelling interactive goal to explore novel interactions, build testable prototypes for usability studies, set the bar for polish and animation quality, and assist with final production implementation.

You will also partner directly with engineers to dig into new technologies to understand the capabilities and limitations of production stacks. You need to be able to deliver production ready prototypes that test the feasibility of designs and have the ability to build and clean foundational code for testing and early stages of production.

In Google Search, we're reimagining what it means to search for information – any way and anywhere. To do that, we need to solve complex engineering challenges and expand our infrastructure, while maintaining a universally accessible and useful…