Frontend Engineer, Generative AI Applications

About Capgemini Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of over 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2025 global revenues of €22.5 billion. About The Role We are looking for an experienced UI/UX Engineer with strong React frontend skills to work directly with business units and design, build, and deploy intuitive applications on our established enterprise GenAI platform. In this forward-deployed role, you will engage users throughout the delivery lifecycle: observing existing workflows, identifying usability needs, translating findings into prototypes and interaction designs, and implementing production-quality React interfaces for custom AI and workflow solutions. You will bridge business users, product design, and engineering, making complex AI capabilities understandable, trustworthy, accessible, and easy to use. This role suits a product-minded builder who is comfortable moving between user discovery, interaction design, coded prototypes, frontend engineering, testing, and production support. Responsibilities User Discovery & Workflow Design: Work directly with business users to understand goals, tasks, pain points, operating constraints, and current workflows. Translate findings into personas, journey maps, information architecture, user flows, and clear product requirements.Prototyping & User Validation: Create wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and interactive prototypes using tools such as Figma or coded prototypes. Facilitate usability testing, synthesise feedback, and iterate rapidly before and during implementation.React Frontend Engineering: Build responsive, maintainable, and production-quality web applications using React, Next.js, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS. Implement reusable components, robust state management, client-side validation, error handling, and automated tests.AI Interaction Design: Design interfaces for conversational, generative, and agentic experiences, including streaming responses, tool execution, progress and system status, citations, user confirmation, human review, error recovery, and clear handling of uncertainty.Design Systems & Accessibility: Apply and extend reusable design patterns, component libraries, and design tokens. Ensure solutions are consistent, responsive, inclusive, and aligned with applicable accessibility standards.Backend & Platform Integration: Collaborate closely with AI and backend engineers to shape API contracts and integrate frontend applications with authentication, databases, enterprise systems, and platform services. Build lightweight backend functionality when required.Quality, Performance & Security: Optimise usability, responsiveness, rendering performance, and reliability; implement unit, integration, end-to-end, and accessibility testing; and apply secure frontend practices for sensitive data and regulated environments.Deployment, Adoption & Handover: Own frontend delivery through production rollout, documentation, user onboarding, feedback collection, support, and knowledge transfer. Use qualitative and quantitative signals to improve user adoption and task completion.Field-to-Platform Feedback: Identify recurring user needs and reusable interface patterns, and feed them back into shared components and improvements to the core platform. Requirements Experience: 5+ years of experience in frontend engineering, UX engineering, interaction design with hands-on development, or a comparable product-facing role, with evidence of shipping applications used in production.Frontend Engineering: Advanced proficiency in React and modern JavaScript or TypeScript, with strong knowledge of component architecture, state management, responsive design, API integration, performance optimisation, and automated testing.UI/UX Practice: Strong foundation in user-centered design, information architecture, interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, visual hierarchy, and accessible design. Proficiency with Figma or equivalent tools is required.Design-to-Code Capability: Demonstrated ability to translate user needs and design concepts into polished, maintainable, production-ready interfaces without relying on a separate handoff for every detail.Stakeholder Partnership: Strong communication, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to work directly with non-technical users, uncover underlying needs, explain design and technical trade-offs, and incorporate feedback constructively.Product & Delivery Mindset: Comfortable working with ambiguous requirements, rapidly prototyping, testing with users, and taking ownership from discovery through rollout and continuous improvement.Technical Breadth: Working knowledge of backend APIs, authentication, databases, cloud environments, version control, CI/CD, and secure software development sufficient to deliver integrated applications with engineering partners. Nice-to-Have (Bonus Points): Forward Deployment: Experience in consulting delivery, design engineering, solutions engineering, internal product delivery, or another role involving direct collaboration with users and end-to-end implementation.AI Product Experience: Experience designing or building interfaces for chatbots, copilots, agentic workflows, data-rich applications, or other AI-enabled products.Design Systems: Experience creating or extending component libraries and design systems, including documentation, accessibility considerations, and visual regression testing.Data Visualisation: Experience presenting complex operational or analytical information using libraries such as Recharts, D3.js, or Chart.js.Regulated Environments: Experience delivering internal enterprise applications subject to stringent security, privacy, accessibility, or government requirements, including IM8 policies. Let's talk about what's in it for you! Passionate people are Capgemini's Ace of Spades - join us to discover a career that will challenge, support and inspire you. Working at Capgemini you'll find the rewards are more than just financial. You will work alongside some very smart and inspiring people on exciting projects and you will also enjoy incredible benefits. We offer flexible work practices and 40 hours of self-development every year with a huge selection of learning opportunities to choose from. As 'Architects of Positive Futures', Capgemini actively supports the community in 3 ways: Diversity and Inclusion - we believe diversity of thought fuels excellence and innovation, which is why we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of their gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, ability, intersex status or age. To support our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we celebrate special events and days of significance that are important to our employees such as Diwali, Bastille Day, Pride, IDAHOBIT, IWD and International day of people with Disabilities. Our Employee Resource Groups Women@Capgemini and OutFront support the grassroots passion of employees to drive our diversity agenda and effect change. Digital inclusion - at Capgemini we are using our skills to drive social impact initiatives focusing on helping society address the impact of the digital and automation revolution. We also provide employees with opportunities to give back to the community through charity projects and volunteer days. Environmental Sustainability - Capgemini joined the CDP's (Carbon Disclosure Project) prestigious 'A list' for its commitment to the Net-Zero economy. We are focusing on helping our clients transform towards more sustainable business models and committing to reduce our own carbon emissions (GHG) by 20% per employee by 2020. Recognized by Ethisphere as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the last 8 years in a row, ethics and values are at the heart of Capgemini's corporate culture and business. Embedded in our DNA, our seven values - Honesty, Boldness, Trust, Team Spirit, Freedom, Fun and Modesty - have remained the same since company inception in 1967. To see how we bring these values to life, click here to listen to some of our employee’s stories. Come join us, bring your whole self to work, create new possibilities for you, your customers and your community and help us to be Architects of Positive Futures.