Senior UI Engineer - Agentic AI & Design Systems

This is a full-time consultant opportunity with Aquent Studios supporting our pharma client.

Join a pioneering organization at the forefront of re-imagining critical services and experiences that impact lives globally. This company is dedicated to transforming complex challenges into innovative solutions, leveraging cutting-edge technology and a human-centered approach to create a better future. As a partner with Aquent, you will play a pivotal role in this mission, contributing to a dynamic environment where your work directly shapes the next generation of digital experiences.

Are you ready to revolutionize how users interact with digital products and data? We are seeking an exceptional UI Engineer to drive the creation of highly immersive, functional, and interactive digital solutions. In this role, you will be instrumental in transforming reimagined product and data applications into intuitive front-end experiences, leveraging modern technologies and AI-assisted tools. Your expertise will directly contribute to delivering consistent, accessible, and delightful digital experiences for users worldwide, making a tangible impact at the intersection of design, technology, and data. This is a unique opportunity to build exceptional, highly targeted digital product solutions across a vast ecosystem of technology platforms, ensuring they are not only visually appealing and user-friendly but also address the unique needs and complexities required to transform detailed workflows and end-to-end experiences.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Overview

The Enterprise Agentic UI Engineer is dedicated to the front-end development of optimized, highly personalized user interfaces and interactions, possessing deep expertise across specific domains such as Web Based Applications, Data Visualization Dashboards, Digital Products, and Applications AI, Agents and Design System environments.

The combination of this experience is intended to build exceptional, highly targeted digital product solutions across a vast ecosystem of technology platforms.

Intended not only to be visually appealing and user-friendly, but must also address the unique needs and complexities that are required to transform detailed workflows and end-to-end experiences.

UI Implementation: Translate product and design system specifications into reusable, scalable, and performant UI components using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and modern frameworks (React, Vue, or similar).

Collaboration: Partner with designers, UX researchers, and backend developers to ensure optimal implementation and seamless user experiences.

Design System Maintenance: Contribute to, lead and maintain design system for IDS (e.g., component libraries, style guides) to ensure consistency across platforms and applications.

Performance & Accessibility: Optimize applications for maximum speed, scalability, and accessibility (WCAG standards).

Code Quality: Create clean, maintainable, and reusable code following the latest modern web based application best practices and engineering guidelines.

Advocacy for the User: Champion the end user throughout the product development lifecycle, ensuring their needs are met.

Agent Centric, AI Enabled: The ability to codify critical tasks, outputs and outcomes as performed by both human and AI Agent.

Cross-Browser Compatibility: Ensure seamless UI behavior across major browsers and devices.

Continuous Learning: Stay current with emerging front-end technologies, frameworks, and AI coding assistants.

Usability and Accessibility: Understanding of core accessibility best practices and guidelines such as POUR.

Design Systems: The maintaining and creating of all design system UI libraries, patterns, and guidelines.

AI Environments: Exposure to the latest AI environments that enhance and amplify the quality of design output.

KEY SKILLS

Overview

The Agentic UI Engineer must possess a blend of hard technical skills and AI enabled Agent centric capabilities. Additionally, the role necessitates strong interpersonal skills such as effective communication, collaboration, and critical thinking.

Hard Skills

Deep Domain Knowledge (SME): Extensive experience and understanding of the specific industry or field.

Experience building adaptive agent workflows and hyper-personalized interfaces.

Familiarity with CSS preprocessors: (SASS/LESS) and modern frameworks.

AI Coding Assistants: GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Vibe Coding, OpenAI Codex.

AI Debugging & Code Review: DeepCode AI, Intellicode, Bolt, Warp.

Productivity Boosters: AI-powered linting, auto formatting, and documentation.

Performance Monitoring: Lighthouse, WebPageTest, GTmetrix.

Accessibility Testing: axe DevTools, Lighthouse Accessibility Reports.

CI/CD Pipelines: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.

Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Performance Optimization: Lazy loading, code splitting, caching.

Strong foundation in web accessibility (WCAG, ARIA standards).

Exposure to AI-driven developer tools for productivity and collaboration.

Detail-oriented, with a keen eye for UI/UX consistency.

Soft Skills

Communication & Collaboration: Excellent skills to articulate concepts and work with cross-functional teams.

Problem-Solving & Creativity: Ability to develop innovative design solutions.

Attention to Detail: Ensure consistency across the digital product ecosystem.

Adaptability: Keep up with evolving design trends.

Critical Thinking: Methodical analysis and evaluation to make informed decisions.

Human-Centered Design: Understand core user needs and behaviors.

Receptiveness to Feedback: Actively soliciting and incorporating feedback.

Empathy: Understanding the perspectives of all users and team members.

Time Management: Prioritizing and managing tasks effectively.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

Overview

The Agentic UI Engineer holds a crucial position in driving the interactive development of our digital products, applications, and systems.

It is expected that each candidate meets the following essential requirements:

Minimum 4-6 years of experience in front-end and Progressive Web Applications.

Strong understanding of Human-Centered best practices.

Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder management skills.

Must have in depth Design System experience and expertise.

Ability to influence and drive change in a complex organizational environment.

Deep expertise with any of the following:

TypeScript

Familiarity with testing frameworks (Jest, Cypress).

Awareness of regulated environments (healthcare, pharma).

Contributions to open-source design systems.

Figma expertise.

Storybook or Zeplin.

EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, HCI, Software Engineering, or related field.

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