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Design Systems Engineer, HMI

Revel 🇺🇸 Emeryville, CA 94608, United States of America

Onsite $100,000 - $140,000 Full-time Senior

The Design Systems Engineer will research and synthesize HMI standards and accessibility guidelines, translating them into a concrete design system. Responsibilities also include auditing existing interfaces and defining how the product conveys meaning visually.

Responsibilities

  • Research and synthesize HMI design standards, human factors guidelines, and accessibility requirements
  • Define and document Revel's design system: color usage philosophy, semantic indicator patterns, typography, iconography, spatial layout, and interaction conventions
  • Establish guidelines for how the product conveys state, alarms, warnings, faults, and nominal conditions
  • Audit existing product interfaces against human factors best practices and accessibility standards
  • Collaborate with product designers and frontend engineers to implement the design system

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in human factors engineering, HMI design, design systems, or a related discipline
  • Demonstrated ability to translate standards and research into actionable design specifications and component libraries
  • Familiarity with one or more HMI or accessibility standards
  • Strong understanding of color perception, color vision deficiency, and multi-channel information encoding in interface design
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system (tokens, components, patterns, documentation)

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on groundbreaking technology that directly impacts critical infrastructure and high-stakes industries
  • Competitive salary, substantial equity, and significant personal growth opportunities
  • Collaborative, ambitious, and technically challenging environment

Key Skills

Human factors engineering HMI design Design systems Color perception Color vision deficiency Multi-channel information encoding Accessibility standards Typography Iconography Spatial layout Interaction conventions Design research Design documentation Cross-functional collaboration Frontend engineering Product design

About Revel

At Revel, we are building a comprehensive hardware control platform - combining an intuitive command/control interface, a specialized programming language tailored to hardware control, and a high performance runtime environment. Our full-stack approach empowers engineers to write control software up to 10x faster, avoid entire classes of software mistakes, and bring safer, more robust hardware to market on previously impossible timelines.

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