AI-Native Product UI Engineer (UI-Focused)

ROLE OVERVIEW

The ASEAN AI Innovation Centre is the overseas R&D hub of our AI Business Group, responsible for localizing mature AI products from China and building new AI products for Malaysia and broader ASEAN markets.

We are looking for an AI-Native Product UI Engineer with a UI-first mindset. Your primary responsibility is to make AI products clear, usable, localized, and visually coherent for English-speaking Malaysian users. You will work closely with the AI-Native Product Manager and the Senior Software Engineer (Architecture Track) to turn product requirements into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, design systems, and AI-generated interactive prototypes.

This is a design-led role, not a traditional full production frontend engineering role. We do not expect you to be both a senior UI designer and a senior frontend engineer. You should, however, be comfortable using AI prototyping and code-generation tools such as Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude to create clickable prototypes, interface variations, and frontend drafts that help the team validate ideas quickly. Final production implementation will be reviewed and completed with engineers and architecture leadership.

As a founding design owner, you will shape local product interface standards for ASEAN clients in energy and education: English UI copy, layout density, navigation patterns, responsive behavior, accessibility, and reusable component libraries. This is an individual-contributor role: you do the design work yourself — research, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and prototypes — rather than managing other designers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

·  Product UI & Interaction Design: Translate PRDs, customer workflows, and product ideas into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, clickable prototypes, and interaction specifications.

·  Localization of Mature Products: Redesign China-origin product interfaces for Malaysian and ASEAN English-speaking users. Adjust information architecture, page density, navigation, terminology, microcopy, and cultural expectations rather than simply translating text.

·  AI-Native Prototyping: Use AI tools such as Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude to rapidly generate interface options, clickable prototypes, UI copy alternatives, and frontend draft screens for fast validation.

·  Design System & UI Standards: Build and maintain reusable UI patterns, including typography, spacing, colors, forms, tables, dashboards, AI chat interfaces, loading states, empty states, error states, and permission states.

·  B2B Product Experience: Design clear enterprise interfaces for AI products in energy and education, including dashboards, workflow tools, admin views, data-heavy pages, and human-in-the-loop AI interaction patterns.

·  English UX Writing & Microcopy: Create concise and natural English UI text, including button labels, field names, prompts, help text, warnings, errors, onboarding instructions, and AI response guidance.

·  Frontend Collaboration & Handoff: Prepare clear design specs, component requirements, interaction states, and responsive behavior guidelines for engineers. Review implementation quality to ensure the final product matches the intended user experience.

·  User Validation & Iteration: Support the Product Manager in customer interviews, usability reviews, demo feedback sessions, and pilot iteration. Update UI based on local customer insights and real product usage.

·  AI Tooling Practices: Develop prompt templates, UI generation workflows, and design-to-code guardrails so the team can use AI tools consistently without losing design quality.

·  Accessibility & Responsiveness: Ensure readability, responsive layout, appropriate contrast, keyboard and state design, and practical accessibility considerations for enterprise users.

WHAT YOU MUST BRING

·  5+ years of hands-on UI/product design experience for software products, preferably B2B SaaS, enterprise dashboards, AI products, or data-heavy applications.

·  Strong Figma skills, including component libraries, auto layout, variants, prototyping, handoff specs, and design system maintenance.

·  A strong portfolio demonstrating visual design quality, interaction logic, information architecture, and the ability to simplify complex workflows.

·  Good understanding of frontend basics such as HTML, CSS, responsive lay…