Senior Staff iOS UX Engineer
Google · Mountain View, CA
$236,000–$330,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role on Google Search's UX engineering team, focused on building interactive prototypes and refining production UI for iOS and other platforms. The work involves collaborating with designers and researchers to explore novel interactions, establish animation and motion standards, and help ship polished features. Suits an experienced front-end engineer with a strong design sensibility and comfort spanning native mobile, web technologies, and AI-assisted coding tools.
Staff level · 10+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 110 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (web and digital interface designers). range 85–150
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $167,412 (middle half $112,521–$215,763). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The title 'Senior Staff iOS UX Engineer' is unusual — the posting is for a UX Engineer role on Google Search, with a primary focus on prototyping, interaction design, and front-end implementation. It sits between 15-1255 (Web and Digital Interface Designers) and 15-1252 (Software Developers); the strong prototyping, motion design, and UX framing tips it toward 15-1255, but the production engineering responsibilities are real.
The vibe-coding tools requirement lists 'AI Studio, Cursor, Antigravity, Firebase Studio' as examples; these are treated as a single grouped requirement with alternatives since the JD uses 'including' (implying any of these qualify). 'Antigravity' appears to be an internal Google tool.
The web technologies requirement (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript) is framed as 'one or more of the following' — meaning candidates need at least one, not all four. They are emitted as separate skills since they are distinct technologies, but the 'or more' framing means not all are individually hard gates.
The 10-year experience requirement is stated at the role level across front-end development, technical UX design, or prototyping — captured as the overall years minimum.
The preferred qualifications section lists 8 years of technical leadership, iOS/Swift experience, Android experience, and hosted back-end experience (Firebase, Supabase) — all marked as preferred.
Compensation is $236,000–$330,000/year plus a 25% bonus target and equity; the bonus and equity are noted here as they cannot be captured in the comp fields.
Multiple work locations are offered: San Francisco CA, Mountain View CA, New York NY, and Washington DC. The primary CBSA is set to San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA as the first-listed location.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): motion design.
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