Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Applied AI Solutions Healthcare & Life Sciences team. Lead the strategy and design of AI-native product experiences and define AI agent behavior, personas, and behavioral contracts for scientific and clinical workflows. Collaborate with designers, engineers, product managers, and scientists to create transparent, trustworthy AI-assisted tools that support decision-making in regulated healthcare and life sciences contexts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives focused on AI agent behavior, defining agent roles, responsibilities, boundaries, escalation, citation, and confidence communication.
• Craft and validate long-term design strategies through customer research, prototyping, and proposals targeted to scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals.
• Design for multiple personas (bench scientists, computational biologists, clinicians) and handle both happy paths and edge/high-risk cases.
• Ensure AI-assisted experiences provide literature-based reasoning, citations, and guidance without supplanting professional judgment.
• Conduct ethnographic studies and user research to understand workflows, collaboration patterns, and trust requirements.
• Create functional prototypes (including vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools) to demonstrate complex scientific workflows and translate prototypes into production-ready specs.
• Leverage and extend existing design systems (Trans Am, with future transition to RAD) and design scientific visualizations and domain-specific patterns.
• Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, and science teams to maintain alignment and feature tracking.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience.
• Available online portfolio showcasing past work.
• Experience with design tools and visual design (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) and prototyping skills in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying Scrum to visual or UX design processes.
• Experience designing complex workflows for specialized professional users.

Team & Context

• Products serve computational biologists, bench scientists, clinicians, and healthcare administrators; high emphasis on precision, trust, and transparency.
• Focus on integrating agentic AI into large-scale, regulated solutions to democratize complex scientific workflows and accelerate the design-build-test-learn cycle.

Locations & Compensation

• USA, CA, Sunnyvale: 156,400.00 - 211,600.00 USD annually
• USA, NY, New York: 155,400.00 - 210,300.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Seattle: 137,800.00 - 186,400.00 USD annually

Benefits (high level)

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), mental health support, medical advice line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave