UX Engineer, HCI
Skills
Boundary LineContextConventionsEngineeringHuman Computer InteractionInterfacesReasoning Skills
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong frontend engineering skills in React TypeScript or equivalent
- Experience building interaction-heavy or experimental interfaces
- Strong product and UX instincts
- Ability to prototype rapidly in ambiguous environments with incomplete specs
- Understanding of animation responsiveness frontend architecture and UI performance
- Interest in HCI interfaces and how to design for trust control transparency and recovery
- Comfort working at the boundary of design and engineering without clear handoffs
- Ability to move fast while keeping the user experience clear and usable
Nice to have
- Hands-on
- High talent density
- Independent
- Fast-moving
- Judgment-driven
Day to day
- Build and prototype AI-native product interfaces across web and mobile
- Create functional prototypes of new HCI interaction models for streaming responses multi-step task flows real-time feedback loops and system state visibility
- Translate design concepts into working code with strong usability responsiveness and motion
- Experiment with UI patterns that show progress uncertainty confidence failure and recovery clearly to users
- Build interfaces that let users supervise correct and redirect AI behavior without micromanaging the system
- Work closely with product design and ML teams to validate interaction ideas quickly
- Contribute to frontend architecture and reusable UI components for AI product surfaces
- Identify and fix usability performance and state management issues in AI-driven interfaces
Hiring process
- Submit portfolio
- 2 rounds of interviews
- Design assessment
- Virtual meetings and/or onsite
- Prompt decision
