Senior UX Engineer

We’re looking for a Senior UX Engineer who is experienced in creating efficient user experiences that interlock with beautifully engineered backend services. This role with the AI Platform product team works alongside UI/UX designers, researchers, product designers, engineers, strategists, and product managers to design and implement computation-powered workflows to accelerate the delivery of internal tools and processes.  

The AI Platform organization builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack including Azure OpenAI, Azure Machine Learning, AI Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.  

As a Senior UX Engineer, you’re a talented and self-driven UX Engineer who lives at the crossroads of design and computation. And you’re just starting to imagine a path to craft designs in a vastly shorter amount of time while paradoxically making those experiences more accessible, more powerful, and more meaningful. You’re a thoughtful and inclusive collaborator who can bring folks along in the pursuit of product excellence, and seamlessly bridges gaps between design and engineering. And you’re looking for a new home where you can fully be who you are, and to attempt to grow even further.  

You are a systems thinker who can transform designs into intuitive, interactive experiences, able to rapidly learn new tools and technologies, and isn’t afraid to explore the unknown. Best of all, you understand and value the design and research processes and know how to merge that knowledge with established development methodologies. You’re curious to create efficient, computationally-grounded tooling for these traditional processes to enable greater value to be generated by combining and working across disciplines.  

We are looking for a candidate who can solve complex end-to-end problems – in code and across many kinds of stakeholders – with solutions that need to seem simple and elegant on the surface to drive internal adoption of computational design approaches.  

This candidate can create clarity for other members of the team and knows how to achieve a high bar for craft and quality. They have experience with design systems, components-as-code, and the inherent tension within the Product – Design – Engineering triangle. Above all, they care about the customer and can integrate customer feedback to truly create experiences that people love.  

You’ll help shape and grow our computational design culture at Microsoft. You’ll work in the open to move quickly and create seamless experiences. You’ll collaborate, experiment, and improve others’ work. You’ll design through coding and test by prototyping.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. 

Responsibilities

• Work with multidisciplinary and cross-product teams to deliver beautiful end-to-end, accessible user experiences across multiple experiences  

• Work with design teams to develop tooling for quickly prototyping key design features and rapidly deploying prototypes to test with stakeholders  

• Use prototyping as a method of hypothesizing, experimenting, and driving designs forward, not merely to assess finalized designs  

• Investigate new technologies and keep abreast of modern techniques for building and prototyping applications