Sr. UX Designer, AWS Applied AI Solutions

Amazons Applied AI Solutions org is seeking a talented and passionate Senior UX Designer to join our Healthcare and Life Sciences team. This user experience role will have a significant impact on our business as you contribute to the strategy and design direction for AI-native product experiences that serve scientists clinicians and healthcare professionals. Throughout the strategy design and development lifecycle you will work collaboratively with your design team alongside engineers product managers and scientists building future-forward experiences that leverage agentic AI capabilities to accelerate drug discovery improve patient outcomes and transform healthcare delivery.

Key job responsibilities
You will lead design initiatives with a particular focus on designing constraining and validating AI agent behavior as a core UX artifact for healthcare and life sciences applications. You will lead initiatives working collaboratively with a cross-functional team of product managers UX researchers scientists and engineers to explore innovate and create ways in which we can help our customers accelerate scientific discovery and improve patient care.

Your role is to identify opportunities across experiences and resolve gaps in our product strategy building inter-operational product experiences that solve for those opportunities while ensuring AI-assisted experiences remain transparent trustworthy and grounded in real human needs. You understand that healthcare and life sciences users maintain exceptionally high trust barsthey require AI systems that cite sources explain reasoning and support rather than replace professional judgment. You approach AI not as a feature or shortcut but as a system that must be intentionally designed tested and governed within the context of scientific rigor and regulatory compliance.

You have an anything is possible mindset when faced with seemingly hard problems and thrive on uncovering deep customer insights. You love being part of a highly collaborative and high-energy team that isnt afraid to swing for the fences. Youre proud of your work your skills and expertise but flexible and open to cross-functional team input as you want to be part of something impactful.

A day in the life
Craft and validate long-term design strategies through customer research prototyping and proposal documents that advocate for the needs of scientists clinicians and healthcare professionals
Define AI agent personas and behavioral contracts that articulate the agents role responsibilities boundaries and escalation behaviorwith particular attention to scientific accuracy citation requirements and appropriate confidence levels
Design for multiple personas with varying technical expertisefrom bench scientists with deep biological knowledge to computational biologists managing complex pipelines to clinicians requiring actionable insights
Design for both happy path experiences and edge cases including error states and high-risk situations where AI behavior could mislead users or compromise scientific integrity
Ensure AI agents are designed to assist users by providing guidance literature-based reasoning and synthesisrather than taking ownership of scientific or clinical decisions
Leverage existing design systems (Trans Am with future transition to RAD) while innovating with domain-specific patterns scientific visualizations and terminology that resonates with scientific users
Accelerate design delivery through vibe coding and AI-assisted prototyping tools creating functional prototypes that demonstrate complex scientific workflows
Conduct ethnographic studies and user research with scientists and clinicians to understand workflows collaboration patterns and trust requirements
Partner with engineering and science teams to translate prototypes into production-ready specifications maintaining alignment through regular syncs and feature tracking documentation

About the team
At AAIS we are building solutions tailored for organizations operating at the intersection of technology and human health. Our products serve computational biologists bench scientists clinicians and healthcare administratorsusers who require exceptional precision trust and transparency in their tools. We are creating AI-assisted experiences that democratize complex scientific workflows enabling researchers to accelerate the design-build-test-learn (DBTL) cycle in drug discovery while maintaining the rigorous standards required in regulated environments.

Our ambition is to transform the way life-saving drugs are made and healthcare is delivered by combining real-time scientific intelligence with the latest computational models and tools. We create AI-assisted experiences so intuitive that scientists and clinicians can focus on their expertisethe technology simply supports their work without getting in the way.

At AWS Solutions we are building scaled applicationssolutions tailored for businesses operating at global scale addressing challenges that few others can. At the heart of this direction is the integration of agentic AI into our product experiences. Unlike generic SaaS products these solutions leverage Amazons unique experience and expertise used by millions of companies around the world to manage their day-to-day operations. Our ambition is to create AI-assisted experiences so intuitive that customers dont even know theyre using AIthe magic just happens.

- 8 years of design experience
- Have an available online portfolio
- Experience with design tools such as Photoshop Illustrator and InDesign and prototyping in HTML JavaScript CSS Ajax

- Experience applying scrum to visual or UX design processes
- Experience with UX design of complex workflows

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Sunnyvale - 156400.00 - 211600.00 USD annually
USA NY New York - 155400.00 - 210300.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 137800.00 - 186400.00 USD annually