Google is hiring a Creative Technologist!

Creative Technologist

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Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

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 at least one platform/area (e.g., Web, iOS, Android, CompDes, Extended Reality).

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform, Figma, Video Editing.
• Familiarity with Unity, 3D Modeling, three.js, WebGL for augmented reality (AR)/virtual reality (VR) Algorithmic thinking and programming knowledge (Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java etc).
• Understanding of AI/ML and potential applications with PyTorch, Jax.
• Ability to keep a portfolio.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time as needed.

About the job

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.

In this role, you will own the feature hit list, ensuring Google-quality code and product performance. You will address absurdly ambitious problems, inventing new solutions by collaborating with designers, product managers, and creative practitioners. You will have a keen eye for detail, approach user experience with a behavioral lens, and can identify future technology trends.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $151,000-$222,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Work with Google DeepMind’s AI models, partnering with product designers, engineers, and researchers to build prototype AI video, image, music and 3D world tools to be used by creative and learning professionals around the world.
• Implement snappy, performant, beautiful user interfaces, today that's React, Next.JS, Svelte, Node and Python with a healthy dose of Figma, AI Studio, and Gemini CLI. Move from clickable mocks in Figma to working prototypes used by actual film-makers, educators, and scientists.
• Own the hit list of features we need to improve and implement, ensuring the highest quality code, and product performance.
• Invent new solutions to new problems, partnering with designers, product managers, and creative practitioners to ensure your work is addressing their needs.

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