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I've worked at Google as a UX Engineer and really enjoyed the role. It's closer to coding than design but if you have strong design skills that may be something you can choose to do differently.

My job was best described as a prototyper specifically. Embedded in a UX team, I worked on prototypes of new features, prototypes for new research and internal tools to assist the UX team (for example, better visual design and motion specification for engineers).

My take was also that non-FAANG companies don't often have enough prototyping work for a full time prototyper so this is a role that's most often seen in large organizations.

Other than that, you won't see a lot of the role. If you're a designer and developer, you've spent time learning both disciplines. Many who have focused just on one discipline may have a greater skillset purely due to time spent learning and executing.

At the end of the day it all comes to down to the individual and the specific team. As a PM now, I greatly value engineers with an eye for UX and designers with an understanding of code which would make me more likely to hire you but the role would still be just for an engineer or a designer.