UX Engineer 2

at  Microsoft

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.
Microsoft Security’s product portfolio is vast, with experiences that span from the security professional to the consumer. We’ve recently set out to unify our experiences to a common design system comprised of shared Figma UI kits, guidance, and common React component libraries that are open-source, open-contribution, and consumable by all product teams. We’re collaborating closely across disciplines, product teams, and organizations within Microsoft to extend Microsoft Fluent based on the unique needs of our users.
To help achieve this goal, we’re looking for a UX Engineer 2 who can meticulously craft our collective vision through code while being an influential liaison between the UX and Engineering teams to up-level our quality across the organization—building consistent, intuitive, and accessible experiences leveraging modern aesthetics and the latest generative AI technology while continually improving based on telemetry and customer feedback. If you are curious and have a passion for complexity, come join our multidisciplinary team of creatives who are transforming the workplace.
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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction or related field AND 2+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
• OR equivalent experience.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• The ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Graphic Design, Product Design, Visual Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years experience working in product or service design and/or shipping production code
• OR Master’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 experience shipping production-ready code as a result of a collaborative process.
• Experience with Figma and coding in React
  UX Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 September 30, 2024.

• Acts as a liaison and fills in gaps between design and engineering. Deepens knowledge of engineering fundamentals (e.g., interpreting designs, writing code, working with source control).
• Develops and/or enables front end design solutions, technical prototypes, tooling, and/or user interface systems (e.g., controls, animation libraries, utilities).
• Builds out Figma UI components with code so they can be used by engineers.
• Leverages techniques to make designs accessible, performance oriented, and reusable.
• Collaborates with product owners and development team members to shepherd end-to-end experiences from concept to product shipment for products.
• Presents to teams (e.g., Design and Engineering) and/or customers to receive feedback and understand user needs.
• Interacts with Engineering for successful design implementation, and performs Quality Assurances (QAs) to help them ensure “pixel perfect” designs.
• Works with developers to iterate further on designs during implementation to ensure optimal designs. Develops an aptitude on limitations of what is implementable, and begins to challenge these limitations.
• Uses a prescribed set of tools (e.g., software), and begins to build and maintain tools and platforms.
• Masters prescribed codebases and design systems (e.g., content templates, icons, form design, UI controls, navigation models). Shares learnings and collaborates with other designers to share education for team improvements. Contributes to existing codebases, design systems, and themes; connects ideas across teams.
• Helps organize communication with Engineering and feature teams outside of core team through all stages of design and development to ensure effective communication across groups.
• Influences both designer and non-designer collaborators.