Sr Associate User Experience Design

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Job Description

Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients

If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.

UX/UI Engineer

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What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role We are seeking a creative and detail-oriented UI/UX Engineer to design and build intuitive, responsive, and accessible user experiences for our AI-driven search and knowledge discovery platforms. In this role, you’ll work at the crossroads of design, technology, and science—helping researchers, clinicians, and regulatory professionals quickly find the information they need to make life-saving decisions. You'll bring a strong sense of usability, accessibility, and design-thinking into a highly regulated, data-rich environment.

• Design elegant, user-friendly interfaces for search platforms that enable users to explore complex scientific and medical data.
• Translate user research, business needs, and technical requirements into wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity prototypes
• Develop responsive and dynamic UI components using modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue).
• Integrate with search backends, APIs, and visualization tools to display search results, filters, ontologies, and metadata.
• Ensure UI performance, accessibility (WCAG/Section 508 compliance), and cross-browser compatibility.
• Design intuitive query experiences including search bars, faceted navigation, filters, result ranking, and interactive content previews
• Collaborate with AI/ML teams to integrate advanced features such as semantic search, auto-suggestions, Q&A interfaces, and generative answers
•  conduct usability testing, A/B testing, and collect user feedback to continuously improve UX.
• Analyze usage data and search behavior to drive data-informed UX enhancements.
• Design and deliver high-quality UI/UX solutions for web
• Create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and user flows.
• Conduct user research, usability testing, and competitive analysis to enhance user experience
• Analyze and identify pain points from the users’ perspective by conducting user research through interviews, observations, Gemba walks and other research methods
• Create Personas, Journey maps, empathy maps, and process maps of current and to-be state
• Ensure pixel-perfect, responsive, innovative, and interactive designs across different devices and platforms.
• Maintain design consistency and adhere to brand guidelines.
• Create Sketches, Wireframes, Mockups and Prototypes, ranging from low fidelity to high-fidelity based on the needs.
•  Produce pixel-perfect interactive prototypes, Visual style guides, Icons and Red lines (Design specifications for developers)
•  Ensure accessibility, SEO-friendly design, and usability best practices.
•  Prepare and maintain necessary documents.
• Understand the business objectives and rationales behind high level product features; translate them into user flows, wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes that lead to intuitive and easy-to-use user experiences
• Follow Amgen design standards and style guides to produce comprehensive deliverables encompassing user flows and UI wireframes to facilitate software development
• Familiarity with data mapping, transformation, and ETL processes
• Proficiency in SQL is highly valued: you don't need to be able to write SQL from scratch, but you should be able to interpret statements to assist in troubleshooting
• Experience with data governance principles will be highly valued.
• Understanding of database structures.
•  Experience in overseeing the design and configuration of tests to measure incremental performance as well as configuring metadata to enable their measurement.
•  How data can be used to power personalized experiences.
• Tools you will be using will include Jira, Figma, Lucidchart,CSS  HTML ,Javascript .
• expertise in creating intuitive, user-friendly interfaces and seamless user experiences.

• Convert complex requirements into elegant, intuitive, and functional designs.
  Provide ongoing support and maintenance for applications, ensuring that they operate smoothly and efficiently.
• Informing various stakeholders about any problems with the current technical solutions being implemented.
• Take ownership and accountability of the deliverables

Basic Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in computer science & engineering preferred with 4-6 years of software development experience OR,
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science & engineering preferred with 5-7 years of software development experience
• Minimum 3+years of experience as an UI-UX designer
• Relevant experience or education in UX Design, Product Design
• Hands on experience with Javascript,React, CSS HTML , Lucid Chart, Figma designing
• Proficient in programming language  React Framework Redux, Graphql, RESTful API Development, Swagger / OpenAPI , Java  Microservices API, Java Crawlers, TypeScript, Fast Python , Java Script, SQL/NoSQL ,Dynamo DB, S3, Databricks, RDS ,GCP Cloud Search, Solr Search, GCP Cloud engine
• Strong problem solving, analytical skills; Ability to learn quickly; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in  HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for developing basic static re-usable UI components
•  Experience in Angular & React.js for creating reusable components, Databricks, SQL
• Experience with Web site development, understand of web site localization process
• Experience with DevOps CICD build and deployment pipeline
• Experience in Agile software development methodologies
• Ability to communicate all phases of UX design, from initial concept through detailed screen designs. Excellent interaction design skills. Experience designing for technical or expert users.
• Detail oriented & Critical thinker.
•  Problem solver, empathetic and is user centric

Good to Have Skills

• Willingness to work on AI Applications
• Experience GXP Search Engine/ Solr Search
• Experience in Posgres SQL /Mongo DB SQL database, vector database for large language models, Databricks or RDS , Dynamo DB , S3
• Experience with Langchain or llamaIndex framework for language models
• Experience with prompt engineering, model fine tuning
• Knowledge of NLP techniques for text analysis and sentiment analysis

Soft Skills:

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with global teams.
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation.
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals.
• Strong presentation and public speaking skills.

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What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers competitive and comprehensive Total Rewards Plans that are aligned with local industry standards.

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for a career that defies imagination

In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.

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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation