What you will do
- In this vital role We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI/UX Engineer Search to design and build intuitive, responsive, and accessible user experiences for our AI-driven search and knowledge discovery platforms.
- In this role, you'll work at the crossroads of design, technology, and sciencehelping researchers, clinicians, and regulatory professionals quickly find the information they need to make life-saving decisions. You'll bring a strong sense of usability, accessibility, and design-thinking into a highly regulated, data-rich environment.
- Design elegant, user-friendly interfaces for search platforms that enable users to explore complex scientific and medical data.
- Translate user research, business needs, and technical requirements into wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Develop responsive and dynamic UI components using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
- Integrate with search backends, APIs, and visualization tools to display search results, filters, ontologies, and metadata.
- Ensure UI performance, accessibility (WCAG/Section 508 compliance), and cross-browser compatibility.
- Design intuitive query experiences including search bars, faceted navigation, filters, result ranking, and interactive content previews.
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate advanced features such as semantic search, auto-suggestions, Q&A interfaces, and generative answers.
- Conduct usability testing, A/B testing, and collect user feedback to continuously improve UX.
- Analyze usage data and search behavior to drive data-informed UX enhancements.
- Design and deliver high-quality UI/UX solutions for the web.
- Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and user flows.
- Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to enhance user experience.
- Analyze and identify pain points from the users perspective by conducting user research through interviews, observations, Gemba walks and other research methods.
- Create Personas, Journey maps, empathy maps, and process maps of current and to-be state.
- Ensure pixel-perfect, responsive, innovative, and interactive designs across different devices and platforms.
- Maintain design consistency and adhere to brand guidelines.
- Create Sketches, Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes, ranging from low fidelity to high-fidelity based on the needs.
- Produce pixel-perfect interactive prototypes, Visual style guides, Icons and Red lines (Design specifications for developers).
- Ensure accessibility, SEO-friendly design, and usability best practices.
- Prepare and maintain necessary documents.
- Understand the business objectives and rationales behind high level product features; translate them into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive and easy-to-use user experiences.
- Follow Amgen design standards and style guides to produce comprehensive deliverables encompassing user flows and UI wireframes to facilitate software development.
- Familiarity with data mapping, transformation, and ETL processes.
- Proficiency in SQL is highly valued: you don't need to be able to write SQL from scratch, but you should be able to interpret statements to assist in troubleshooting.
- Experience with data governance principles will be highly valued.
- Understanding of database structures.
- Experience in overseeing the design and configuration of tests to measure incremental performance as well as configuring metadata to enable their measurement.
- How data can be used to power personalized experiences.
- The tools you will be using will include Jira, Figma, Lucidchart, CSS HTML, JavaScript.
- Expertise in creating intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and seamless user experiences.
- Convert complex requirements into elegant, intuitive, and functional designs.
- Provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications, ensuring that they operate smoothly and efficiently.
- Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
- Take ownership and accountability of the deliverables.
Basic Qualifications:
- Degree in computer science & engineering preferred with 6-8 years of software development experience
- Minimum 3+ years of experience as a UI-UX designer
- Relevant experience or education in UX Design, Product Design
- Hands on experience with JavaScript, CSS HTML, Lucidchart, Figma designing, React Framework Redux, No SQL, Cloud CI/CD build pipelines
- Proficient in programming language React Framework Redux, GraphQL, RESTful API Development, Swagger OpenAPI, Java Microservices API, Java Crawlers, TypeScript, Fast Python, Java Script, SQL/NoSQL, Dynamo DB, S3, Databricks, RDS, GCP Cloud Search, Solr Search, GCP Cloud engine
- Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for developing basic static re-usable UI components
- Experience in Angular & React.js for creating reusable components, Databricks, SQL
- Experience with Web site development, understanding of web site localization process
- Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
- Experience in Agile software development methodologies
- Ability to communicate all phases of UX design, from initial concept through detailed screen designs. Excellent interaction design skills. Experience designing for technical or expert users.
- Detail oriented & Critical thinker.
- Problem solver, empathetic and is user centric
Good to Have Skills
- Willingness to work on AI Applications
- Experience in Java, Python, Solr search, data bricks, RDS
- Experience GXP Search Engine/ Solr Search
- Experience in Postgres SQL, Mongo DB SQL database, vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS, Dynamo DB, S3
- Experience with LangChain or LlamaIndex framework for language models
- Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning
- Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis
Soft Skills:
- Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively with global teams.
- High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
- Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
- Strong presentation and public speaking skills.
