Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Applied AI Solutions Healthcare & Life Sciences team focused on creating AI-native product experiences for scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals. The role emphasizes designing, constraining, and validating AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact while ensuring scientific accuracy, transparency, and trust.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives that define AI agent personas, behavioral contracts, boundaries, escalation behavior, citation and confidence requirements.
• Conduct customer research (including ethnographic studies) to inform long-term design strategies and identify product opportunities.
• Prototype and validate workflows and interactions, including happy paths, edge cases, error states, and high-risk situations.
• Create functional prototypes and accelerate delivery using vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, UX researchers, scientists, and engineers to translate prototypes into production-ready specifications and maintain alignment through regular syncs and tracking documentation.
• Leverage and extend existing design systems (Trans Am with migration to RAD) and innovate with domain-specific patterns and scientific visualizations.
• Ensure AI-assisted experiences support user judgment, cite sources, explain reasoning, and comply with scientific and regulatory expectations.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

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

Team & Context

• Products target computational biologists, bench scientists, clinicians, and healthcare administrators and emphasize precision, trust, and transparency.
• Work involves integrating agentic AI into scaled applications for regulated scientific and healthcare environments.

Compensation & Benefits (excerpt)

• Location-based base salary ranges listed for Sunnyvale, New York, and Seattle (see job posting for details).
• Package includes sign-on payments, restricted stock units (RSUs), and comprehensive benefits (health plans, 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave).