The Windows Design Systems team is looking for a Senior UX Engineer with exceptional visual design awareness and experience implementing successful user experiences. In this role, you will have the opportunity to impact the visual design expression of Windows and develop elegant user interfaces for Windows and AI integration. As a Senior UX Engineer, you will develop front end designs, specs, user interface systems, and partner with engineers to build out fully functioning features. You will generate ideation solutions, identify user needs and define product designs. You will develop prototypes to meet specific needs, solve challenges and get user feedback. This opportunity will allow you to work with designers to iterate designs during implementation, including listening to customer needs, driving accessibility and connecting Design and Engineering. You will liaise between Design and Engineering to deliver product requirements and drive consistency with existing codebases and design systems. On our team, UX Engineers are passionate about taking on new problems to drive progress and vision for design teams, excel at multi-tasking and time management, and work across disciplines to implement products and prototypes to bring design ideas to life. We are focused on crafting polished features and supporting the full product cycle: prototyping, consulting design and engineering teams, and implementing new features, keeping the UX coherent and aligned to design system thinking, as well as efficient, delightful and accessible to all users. 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** + Act as liaison and fill in gaps between design and engineering and develop and/or enable user interface prototypes, systems and solutions. + Generate ideation solutions for complex products through design meetings to improve product designs and create clarity for other members of the team and develop functional prototypes to meet needs at hand and solve. complex challenges, building on previous work and emphasizing efficiencies. + Implement pixel perfect user interfaces in collaboration with UX research, design and engineering teams. + Identify user experience and technical issues while developing prototypes from functional/design specifications, brainstorm and prototype solutions, communicate findings to engineering, UX research and design stakeholders + Participate in design reviews, code reviews, accessibility reviews, help identify issues and provide solutions. + Provide technical input and inform project decisions on user experience development aligned with design systems thinking and accessibility + Communicate a compelling, convincing product story to a specific audience, influencing those outside of design. **Qualifications** **Required/Minimum Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 4+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code + ORMaster's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code + OR equivalent experience. + 2+ years of experience with modern front-end frameworks and programming languages (Angular, ReactJS, NextJS, Python, Typescript, etc). + 2+ years of experience prototyping front-end features. **Other Requirements:** + Abllity to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code + OR equivalent experience + Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML), C#/C++ experience, especially in production. + Experience in building accessible features: high contrast, scaled text, and narrator. + Experience with modern front-end frameworks and programming languages (Angular, ReactJS, NextJS, Python, Typescript, etc). + 4+ years of experience prototyping front-end features. + Proficiency with Figma. + Ability to champion collaborative product making and partner with multiple teams across multiple organizations. + Effective visual design skills and ability to create pixel-perfect production code, prototypes and other design artifacts. + Creative problem solving, analytical skills, flexibility, time management and teamwork skillls. UX Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 14, 2025. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .