Staff Driver Safety UX Researcher, Android for Auto

Quick Facts

• Role: User Experience Researcher (UXR)

• Focus: safety research and automotive human factors across the Android Auto product portfolio

• Pay: US $188000 - $274000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Description

You will join a multi-disciplinary UX team and work with Engineering and Product Management to gather insights and create industry-leading products. The role drives impact across product development by exploring user behaviors and motivations through primary research, ensuring products are useful, usable, and helpful.

Responsibilities

• Influence stakeholders across organizations to gain support for research-based, user-centric solutions.

• Define, own, and drive the strategic safety research agenda across the Android Auto product portfolio using quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods methodologies.

• Establish and uphold safety frameworks and best practices within the Android Auto team, ensuring products meet or exceed industry standards and user expectations for safety.

• Act as a subject-matter expert on driver safety, distraction, and automotive human factors, delivering critical analysis and strategic guidance for product decisions.

• Conduct primary research including field studies, interviews, diary studies, ethnography, surveys, usability testing, and logs analysis.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

• 8 years of experience in an applied research setting, or similar.

• Experience with safety-focused research programs.

• Experience with automotive human factors principles and advanced research methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree or PhD in human-computer interaction, cognitive science, statistics, psychology, anthropology, or a related field.

• 7 years of experience working with executive leadership (Director level and above).

• 5 years of experience managing projects in a changing organization.

• Experience with safety relevant development processes (e.g., automotive).

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance.

• Retirement benefits: 401(k) with company match.

• Paid time off: 20 days of vacation per year (accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years).

• Sick time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle), including 5 discretionary sick days per instance.

• Maternity leave: 28–30 weeks (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding).

• Baby bonding leave: 18 weeks.

• Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

Note

Applicants can share a preferred working location among San Jose, CA; Kirkland, WA; or San Francisco, CA.