Distinguished Designer (AI)

TL;DR

Distinguished Designer (AI): Defining and visioning the user experience for the Gemini App, driving design excellence, and fostering a culture of innovation with an accent on delivering an intuitive, powerful, and aesthetically pleasing experience. Focus on architecting the AI-UI bridge, optimizing rendering and state management, and building AI-augmented tooling for UI generation and live-model prototyping.

Location: Mountain View, California, US

Salary: $323,000 - $449,000 USD + bonus + equity + benefits

Company

Google DeepMind is a team of scientists, engineers, and machine learning experts working together to advance the state of the art in artificial intelligence.

What you will do

• Architect the AI-UI Bridge: Design technical frameworks for iOS and Android to handle non-deterministic AI outputs with zero jitter and maximum fluidity.
• Optimize rendering and state management to handle complex multimodal requests without compromising battery life or device thermals.
• Build and deploy internal "Design-to-Code" pipelines that allow the design team to use Gemini to automate UI generation and live-model prototyping.
• Establish UX best practices for emerging technologies or ambiguous problem spaces and mentor senior individual contributors and engineers.

Requirements

• Minimum: 15+ years of experience in User Experience / Design, with experience establishing UX best practices for emerging technologies or ambiguous problem spaces.
• Expert-level mastery of mobile frameworks (Flutter, Swift, Kotlin, or React Native) and front-end performance for real-time applications.
• Demonstrated track record of shipping and scaling flagship consumer applications across platforms.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or Ph.D. in a design-related field.
• Experience with AI/ML and agentic technologies; Depth and breadth of knowledge that enables ideation and development of creative solutions.

Culture & Benefits

• Committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, maternity or related condition or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
• Value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.