What is a Senior Staff UX Engineer? Senior Staff UX Engineer Salary

The Senior Staff UX Engineer will have a passionate and proven track record of implementing solutions that deliver value in interaction design, responsive design, engineering and across web, mobile, tablet and desktop platforms. They have extensive knowledge of user experience design processes, from intuitive evaluation to usability testing.

They are also proficient in the professional use of wireframe applications such as Axxure, iRise, Adobe Creative Suite, Balsamiq, Gliffy, MockFlow, Microsoft Office (Visio) and can work with a variety of techniques. You will excel in responsive design using W3C HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery (or other frameworks), REST, JSON, XML and CSS standards.

With a deep understanding of website performance optimisation, SEO best practices, and enterprise-level web development and deployment processes, they also have experience with Microsoft solution frameworks (C#, ASP.NET, MVC) and cloud computing platforms (Azure, EC3, Amazon), implementing O design principles and best practices.

Senior Staff UX Engineer Salary

The total estimated salary range for a Senior Staff UX Engineer in the United States is between $150,000 and $190,250 per year. The mean annual compensation is $136,636. These figures represent the midpoint of the salary ranges from the Total Compensation Estimation model and are based on actual salary data collected from users. Additional compensation can total approximately $53,885 per year and may include cash bonuses, commissions, tips and profit sharing. The “Most Likely Range” represents values between the 25th and 75th percentiles of current compensation data.

The average Senior Staff UX Engineer salary in the United States varies by company and ranges from a median of $150,933 to $190,000 annually. Typically, salaries for this role fall in the range of $130,000 to $153,000 per year. For senior user experience designers, the average hourly rate is approximately $53.81.

Salaries for Senior Staff UX Engineers are influenced by factors such as location, education and experience. Designers with senior-level experience in states such as Washington, California, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island tend to earn the highest average salaries. In particular, Senior Staff UX Engineers in Washington (earning around $141,510), California ($138,553) and Massachusetts ($116,743) receive the highest compensation. Among companies, Senior Staff UX Engineers at Netflix earn the highest salaries, and within industries, Senior User Experience Designers in the manufacturing sector earn the highest salaries in the US.

United States Senior Staff UX Engineer Salary

Senior Staff UX Engineer Job Description

A UX engineer designs and builds digital products (such as websites, applications, etc.) with user experience principles in mind. They typically focus on front-end components such as interface elements, layouts and flows that users interact with. These professionals may work within both engineering and design teams, facilitating communication between the two.