Sounds like he'll actually be a user experience designer, not an "engineer."
Also, unless he's really doing the leg-work of user research, studies, interviews, and test sessions, he's not really a user experience designer, either. He's just a guy with some opinions.
He's just a guy with some opinions
He actually now has a colorful history of saying and doing douchey things like this.
Edit: particularly the douchey thing here was him lying and attacking woz: ("He’s a brilliant man and I respect his work, but he wasn’t available to us as a resource, so his account isn’t going to be our account because we don’t know exactly what it was. We did the best job we could. Nobody really knows what happened in the rooms [...] Woz is being paid by another company to support a different Steve Jobs film."-- an outright lie; woz got back to them, and kutcher et al. didn't like making changes at odds with their preconceived narrative of how Jobs would be presented as the main hero as both a tech guru and frontman).
Source for this because unless that's true there's nothing particularly 'douchey' about his comments in the article you linked.
You mean someone like Steve Jobs.
You made a clear point of it.