UX Engineer

You are a digital problem solver who gets excited about turning smart ideas into experiences people can actually use. You’re eager to apply your technical knowledge in a role where front-end development, CMS delivery, UX thinking, and practical innovation come together to create meaningful, user-centered digital experiences. You’ll work closely with business stakeholders, product owners, marketing, communications, content teams, and technology colleagues to shape thoughtful, scalable solutions across AAOS’s CMS and related platforms. If this sounds like you, please read on! As the UX Engineer, you will bring a strong engineering foundation, a collaborative and curious mindset, sound judgment around experience strategy and experimentation, and an interest in using automation and responsible AI-assisted tools to work smarter. From discovery conversations and wireframes to prototypes, design recommendations, production-quality front-end code, CMS implementation, and proof-of-concept solutions, you’ll help teams test ideas, improve digital experiences, and move promising concepts toward real impact. Digital Experience, Front-End Development, and CMS Delivery Develop and maintain responsive, accessible, high-performing web experiences across the CMS and related AAOS digital platforms. Build reusable front-end components, templates, content blocks, styles, and patterns that support consistent, scalable digital delivery. Translate UX requirements, wireframes, prototypes, visual designs, and stakeholder needs into clean, maintainable HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript. Collaborate with backend engineers on CMS content models, application functionality, integrations, personalization, search, forms, and related platform capabilities. Support debugging, release validation, code reviews, documentation, and modernization of existing components and templates. UX, UI, and Digital Experience Design Partner with stakeholders to understand audiences, user goals, business objectives, content needs, workflows, and pain points. Create or contribute to user flows, site maps, wireframes, prototypes, and interface designs appropriate to project scope. Apply UX, interaction-design, responsive-design, and information-architecture practices to improve navigation, comprehension, task completion, and engagement. Provide practical guidance on layout, hierarchy, typography, imagery, calls to action, content presentation, and brand-aligned interface patterns. Rapid Solutions, Integrations, and AI-Enabled Prototyping Create lightweight prototypes, proofs of concept, and rapid digital solutions that help stakeholders evaluate ideas, improve workflows, and accelerate decision-making. Connect CMS capabilities, APIs, automation, analytics, and related platforms to improve digital experiences and operational efficiency. Use AI-assisted tools responsibly to support design exploration, development, documentation, testing, content-structure recommendations, and digital experience improvements. Partner with stakeholders to evaluate where AI-enabled capabilities could improve user experience, authoring workflows, personalization, support processes, or internal productivity. Accessibility, Quality, and Performance Apply accessibility-first practices throughout design and development, including semantic markup, keyboard navigation, focus management, color contrast, form labeling, and appropriate component behavior. Help ensure digital experiences align with applicable accessibility standards and organizational expectations, including WCAG 2.2 AA where appropriate. Support accessibility reviews, responsive testing, browser compatibility testing, usability validation, release readiness, and front-end performance improvements. Work with QA, engineering, and content teams to document, prioritize, and remediate defects affecting usability, accessibility, visual consistency, or cross-device behavior. Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration Serve as a consultative technology partner, translating business needs into practical digital solutions and clearly communicating design and technical trade-offs. Facilitate discovery conversations, design reviews, working sessions, and feedback discussions with technical and nontechnical participants. Collaborate with marketing, communications, education, product, analytics, content, QA, and engineering teams throughout delivery. Help content authors and business partners understand CMS components, templates, design patterns, platform capabilities, and appropriate usage. Qualifications: Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, web development, human-computer interaction, graphic design, digital media, or a related field; or equivalent education, training, and experience. Three or more years of professional experience developing responsive web applications, content-rich websites, CMS-driven experiences, or digital products. Strong proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, modern JavaScript, responsive development, and maintainable front-end implementation. Experience building reusable UI components, page templates, design patterns, or component libraries. Ability to translate UX/UI designs, wireframes, prototypes, business requirements, and stakeholder feedback into polished front-end and CMS experiences. Working knowledge of UX, visual design, information architecture, usability, responsive behavior, and accessibility principles. Experience collaborating with nontechnical stakeholders to clarify goals, communicate options, and deliver practical solutions. Experience with source control and collaborative development practices, including pull requests, code reviews, and issue tracking. Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, collaboration, and prioritization skills. Ability to use AI-assisted tools responsibly to improve productivity, support prototyping, accelerate documentation, or strengthen development and testing workflows. CMS, content model, template, component, block, or authoring‑experience development; Optimizely/Episerver experience is a plus. Front-end engineering depth, including component-based architecture, TypeScript, modern JavaScript tooling, Angular, React, Razor, C#, .NET, or ASP.NET Core. User-centered problem solving with strong UX, visual design, interaction-design, information-architecture, and accessibility judgment. Experience using analytics, user feedback, accessibility testing, WCAG 2.2 AA, Section 508 considerations, performance optimization, or Core Web Vitals to improve digital experiences. Rapid prototyping, experimentation, proof-of-concept development, and solution validation to help teams evaluate ideas before larger investment. Experience with headless CMS, APIs, search, personalization, analytics, experimentation, or content‑delivery platforms. Responsible use of AI-assisted development, prototyping, automation, intelligent search, chatbot concepts, personalization, or content-experience tools. Clear communication, stakeholder consultation, requirements discovery, and collaboration across business, design, content, product, QA, and engineering teams. Experience in a membership association, healthcare, education, nonprofit, publishing, or other content-intensive organization. Attention to detail, commitment to quality, continuous learning, and willingness to improve platforms, patterns, and processes. Desired: Salary Range: $102,000–$105,000, depending on qualifications and experience. If you’re excited to blend creativity, technology, accessibility, and user-centered problem solving in a mission-driven environment, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help AAOS continue building digital experiences that are useful, engaging, and built for the people who rely on them. Please share the following: Clearly communicate why you are the ideal candidate for this role, providing specific examples and experiences as proof points. Resumes must be accompanied by a cover letter with salary expectations to be considered. Please note: This hybrid position is based in Rosemont, Illinois and requires the ability to commute to the office at least twice per week. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full‑time basis without the need for current or future employer sponsorship. AAOS does not sponsor, and will not sponsor, Applicants or employees for purposes of obtaining or maintaining Work Authorization. #J-18808-Ljbffr