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UX Software Engineer I (Contractor)
A UX Engineer I to join the Applied AI squad at Alation. You'll contribute frontend code across the product — and bring the design sensibility to make it good. That means you're not just building what's specced; you're the person who notices when interactions are inconsistent, who thinks about the component library holistically, and who makes thoughtful decisions about color, hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and making the product intuitive to use.
You'll collaborate closely with product management and engineering on a workspace that combines copilot interactions, data visualization, and generative workflows. Your job is to ship frontend code that's well-built and well-designed.
We work in a hybrid model—you’ll join us in our Redwood City office 2 days per week (Tue/Thurs) to collaborate, connect, and enjoy a team atmosphere! Local candidates only, no relocation is offered. This is a full time contract. $40.00/hr. Open to contract-to-hire.
What You'll Do
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Contribute frontend code in our production codebase. You're an engineer first who can write clean, reviewable code and work within our stack and development workflow
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Bring design judgment to everything you build. Color auditing, interaction consistency, component reuse, information hierarchy, progressive disclosure — you care about this stuff and you act on it
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Work through ambiguous product problems alongside PM and engineering. Identify the use cases, map the user mental models, and make opinionated design decisions grounded in that understanding
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Iterate based on feedback from the team and from real users. Treat designs as hypotheses to be tested, not deliverables to be handed off
Who You Are
Recently completed a degree in CS, HCI, interaction design, product design, or a related field
You write frontend code. React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS — you can work in a real codebase with version control and code review, not just a sandbox
You have a portfolio that shows things you designed and built. We want to see work where you had ownership of the interaction, thinking and the implementation. Be ready to talk through the decisions, not just the deliverables
You have a design eye. You notice when something's off — inconsistent patterns, unclear hierarchy, interactions that don't feel right — and you know how to fix it, not just flag it
AI-native in your workflow. You use AI tools to move faster, but you have the design judgment to direct the output and know when it's not good enough
Fast, curious, and low-ego. You'd rather ship and learn than polish in isolation
Nice to Have
Experience designing AI-powered interfaces: copilots, chat-based workflows, or generative UX patterns
Familiarity with data-dense interfaces — dashboards, tables, multi-panel layouts
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Alation, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, name, religion, color, national origin, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider
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