Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Healthcare and Life Sciences team within Amazon’s Applied AI Solutions org. Design AI-native experiences and define AI agent behavior for products that serve scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives that define, constrain, and validate AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact.
• Collaborate with product managers, UX researchers, scientists, and engineers to explore and create solutions that accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient care.
• Conduct customer research and ethnographic studies to craft and validate long-term design strategies.
• Create prototypes and functional demonstrations of complex scientific workflows using vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools.
• Define AI agent personas, behavioral contracts, citation and explanation requirements, and escalation behavior suited for high-trust scientific and clinical contexts.
• Design for multiple user personas (bench scientists, computational biologists, clinicians) and handle happy-path, edge cases, and high-risk scenarios.
• Leverage and extend design systems (Trans Am with transition to RAD) and develop domain-specific patterns and scientific visualizations.
• Partner with engineering and science teams to translate prototypes into production-ready specifications and maintain alignment through documentation and regular syncs.

Requirements

• 8+ years of design experience.
• Available online portfolio.
• Experience with design tools and prototyping technologies including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and Ajax.
• Experience designing complex workflows and ensuring systems remain transparent, trustworthy, and grounded in user needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying Scrum to visual or UX design processes.
• Experience with UX design of complex workflows and domain-specific scientific applications.

Team Context

The AAIS team builds scaled, AI-assisted solutions for life sciences and healthcare users that require precision, transparency, and regulatory awareness. The team focuses on integrating agentic AI into product experiences tailored for scientific workflows and clinical decision support.

Compensation & Locations

Base salary ranges provided in the posting (annual):

• Sunnyvale, CA: 156400.00 - 211600.00 USD
• New York, NY: 155400.00 - 210300.00 USD
• Seattle, WA: 137800.00 - 186400.00 USD

Additional components include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).