Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Applied AI Solutions Healthcare & Life Sciences team focused on shaping AI-native product experiences for scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals. The role leads design initiatives that define AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact and ensures AI-assisted experiences are transparent, trustworthy, and grounded in scientific and regulatory rigor.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design strategy and validate long-term designs through customer research, prototyping, and design proposals.
• Define AI agent personas, behavioral contracts, escalation behavior, citation and confidence requirements.
• Design experiences for multiple personas (bench scientists, computational biologists, clinicians) including happy paths, edge cases, error states, and high-risk scenarios.
• Ensure AI agents assist with guidance, literature-based reasoning, and synthesis without replacing 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) to demonstrate complex scientific workflows and partner with engineering and science teams to translate prototypes to production-ready specifications.
• Leverage and extend existing design systems (Trans Am with transition to RAD) and innovate domain-specific visualizations and terminology.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

• 8+ years of design experience.
• Available online portfolio.
• Experience with Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and prototyping in HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying Scrum to visual or UX design processes.
• Experience designing complex workflows.

Tools & Systems

• Design tools: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• Web prototyping: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Ajax
• Design systems: Trans Am (with planned transition to RAD)
• Methods: vibe coding, AI-assisted prototyping, ethnographic research, AI agent persona & behavior design

Team & Impact

Work closely with cross-functional teams of product managers, UX researchers, engineers, and scientists to create AI-assisted solutions that support scientific discovery and clinical decision-making while meeting high standards for accuracy, traceability, and trust.