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UX Engineer II

Overview

We are a team of product designers, UX researchers, content designers, and technical writers. Together with our PM and Engineering partners, we design product experiences that are trusted, human-centered, and easy to use, enabling our users to manage, protect, and secure their digital environments with peace of mind. 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 Microsofts 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.

Were looking for a UX Engineer II —someone who builds as a way of thinking; someone who sketching ideas in code, explores novel interaction paradigms, and collaborates deeply with other UX professionals, engineers, and product managers. By combining craft, curiosity, and technical precision, youll help bring to life the future of secure, AI-powered experiences at Microsoft.

As AI redefines how we create product experiences, this role is more vital than ever. Tools can now generate code at scale, but its human creativity, intentionality, and empathy that give products their soul. Youll bring that soul—bridging design and engineering to craft experiences that are not only functional, but meaningful. Youll help us move fast, innovate boldly, and build with purpose.

Responsibilities

  • Shape the frontier: Prototype and define new interaction patterns for agentic experiences.
  • Design in code: Create functional prototypes and experimental interfaces that demonstrate the potential of AI-native experiences.
  • Bridge design and engineering: Collaborate closely with product management and engineering to translate Figma concepts into performant, scalable solutions while ensuring seamless, high-quality implementation.
  • Simplify the complex: Turn advanced AI capabilities into clear, intuitive workflows that make our users feel empowered. And not overwhelmed.
  • Elevate craft: Champion design excellence through systems thinking, interaction detail, and thoughtful use of emerging frameworks.
  • Prototype responsibly: Move fast to explore new ideas while grounding every experiment in trust, privacy, and long-term value.
  • Stay curious: Continuously explore new AI and agentic paradigms, frameworks, and prototyping tools to keep Security UX at the forefront of the GenAI revolution.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

  • 5+ years hands-on experience creating detailed wireframes (both low and high fidelity), polished design prototypes, and other design artifacts in a fast-paced, cutting-edge technology environment.
  • Capable of working through ambiguity, design trade-offs, and shifting priorities.
  • Creative and holistic problem solver with a sharp eye for details.
  • Creating and applying established design principles and interaction patterns. Experience using design components and pattern libraries.
  • Demonstrated breadth across interaction design, information architecture, usability.
  • Effective interpersonal communication and storytelling skills.
  • Awareness of inclusive design and how it supports Microsofts mission.
  • Experience within the Security domain.
  • Experience designing for Artificial Intelligence.
  • Understanding of Large Language Model (LLM).

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The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.