Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Role

Senior UX Designer on the Applied AI Solutions Healthcare & Life Sciences team responsible for shaping AI-native product experiences for scientists, clinicians, and healthcare professionals. The role focuses on defining AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact, ensuring transparency, trustworthiness, and scientific rigor while collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and scientists.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design initiatives to define, constrain, and validate AI agent behavior, including personas, behavioral contracts, escalation rules, citation and confidence requirements.
• Design for multiple user personas across varying technical expertise (bench scientists, computational biologists, clinicians) and address both happy-path and edge-case/high-risk scenarios.
• Craft and validate long-term design strategies through customer research, prototyping, and advocacy documents.
• Conduct ethnographic studies and user research with scientists and clinicians to understand workflows, collaboration patterns, and trust requirements.
• Create prototypes and accelerate delivery using vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools; translate prototypes into production-ready specifications in partnership with engineering and science teams.
• Leverage and extend existing design systems (Trans Am, transitioning to RAD) and design domain-specific patterns, scientific visualizations, and terminology for scientific users.
• Ensure AI-assisted experiences support user judgment, cite sources, explain reasoning, and meet regulatory and scientific accuracy expectations.

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 and domain-specific user experiences.

Context

The role sits within AAIS building scaled, agentic-AI solutions for healthcare and life sciences, emphasizing precision, trust, and transparency to support scientific workflows such as accelerating the design-build-test-learn (DBTL) cycle in drug discovery.

Compensation & Benefits (summary)

Location-based base salary ranges are published; total Amazon package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs), plus comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.