UX Engineer

You are a digital problem solver who gets excited about turning smart ideas into experiences people can actually use. You’re eager to apply your technical knowledge in a role where front-end development, CMS delivery, UX thinking, and practical innovation come together to create meaningful, user-centered digital experiences. You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, marketing, communications, content teams, and technology colleagues to shape thoughtful, scalable solutions across AAOS’s CMS and related platforms.

If this sounds like you, please read on!

As the UX Engineer, you will bring a strong engineering foundation, a collaborative and curious mindset, sound judgment around experience strategy and experimentation, and an interest in using automation and responsible AI-assisted tools to work smarter. From discovery conversations and wireframes to prototypes, design recommendations, production-quality front-end code, CMS implementation, and proof-of-concept solutions, you’ll help teams test ideas, improve digital experiences, and move promising concepts toward real impact.

• Develop and maintain responsive, accessible, high-performing web experiences across the CMS and related AAOS digital platforms.
• Build reusable front-end components, templates, content blocks, styles, and patterns that support consistent, scalable digital delivery.
• Translate UX requirements, wireframes, prototypes, visual designs, and stakeholder needs into clean, maintainable HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Type Script.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on CMS content models, application functionality, integrations, personalization, search, forms, and related platform capabilities.
• Support debugging, release validation, code reviews, documentation, and modernization of existing components and templates.

• Partner with stakeholders to understand audiences, user goals, business objectives, content needs, workflows, and pain points.
• Create or contribute to user flows, site maps, wireframes, prototypes, and interface designs appropriate to project scope.
• Apply UX, interaction-design, responsive-design, and information-architecture practices to improve navigation, comprehension, task completion, and engagement.
• Provide practical guidance on layout, hierarchy, typography, imagery, calls to action, content presentation, and brand-aligned interface patterns.

• Create lightweight prototypes, proofs of concept, and rapid digital solutions that help stakeholders evaluate ideas, improve workflows, and accelerate decision-making.
• Connect CMS capabilities, APIs, automation, analytics, and related platforms to improve digital experiences and operational efficiency.
• Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to support design exploration, development, documentation, testing, content-structure recommendations, and digital experience improvements.
• Partner with stakeholders to evaluate where AI-enabled capabilities could improve user experience, authoring workflows, personalization, support processes, or internal productivity.

• Apply accessibility-first practices throughout design and development, including semantic markup, keyboard navigation, focus management, color contrast, form labeling, and appropriate component behavior.
• Help ensure digital experiences align with applicable accessibility standards and organizational expectations, including WCAG 2.2 AA where appropriate.
• Support accessibility reviews, responsive testing, browser compatibility testing, usability validation, release readiness, and front-end performance improvements.
• Work with QA,…