Design Engineering Jobs in United Kingdom
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Product Engineer | Design Engineering Knowledge
🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Neural Concept 🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Build and ship a product capability that extracts, structures, and traces engineering requirements and design constraints, then makes them available within design workflows. Integrate with enterprise and engineering systems, develop human review and evaluation processes, and turn recurring customer needs into reusable platform components.
Product Engineer | Design Engineering Knowledge
🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Neural Concept 🇬🇧 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
You will build the Design Engineering Knowledge capability by extracting requirements from customer specifications and integrating them into design workflows. This involves creating data models, building integrations with enterprise systems, and designing human-in-the-loop review flows for AI-generated outputs.
Avionics Design Manager
🇬🇧 Farnborough, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Aalto 🇬🇧 Farnborough, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead the avionics design team and oversee the design, development, qualification, integration, testing, and certification of Zephyr aircraft avionics subsystems. Manage development programmes and team growth, serve as the avionics technical authority, and coordinate with engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, systems, and software teams.
Data Center Engineering Design Manager
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Verne 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Lead and develop a team of four M&E Shift Engineers while overseeing the safe, reliable operation and maintenance of the data centre’s critical infrastructure. Manage engineering risks, incidents, customer and contractor relationships, electrical safety, compliance, and technical input to projects and operational improvements.
Head of Design / Lead Mechanical Design Engineer
🇬🇧 Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Enhanced M&e Ltd 🇬🇧 Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Lead the mechanical design function across commercial Design & Build projects, managing and developing Design Engineers and CAD teams while overseeing designs from concept through delivery. Ensure designs are compliant, coordinated, buildable, and commercially viable, and collaborate with project stakeholders to resolve technical issues and improve design processes.
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Analog Design Engineering Intern
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Analog Devices 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The intern will assist in the design, simulation, and characterization of high-performance analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. They will also perform laboratory testing and collaborate with senior engineers to optimize circuit performance and support silicon bring-up.
Design Engineering Manager
🇬🇧 Havant, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Collins Aerospace 🇬🇧 Havant, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Lead and develop the Design Engineering team, coordinating engineering resources and delivery across concurrent development, production, and aftermarket programmes. Ensure design process and configuration governance, monitor delivery performance and risks, and improve engineering processes in collaboration with technical leaders and programme management.
Design Engineering Manager
🇬🇧 Havant, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Rtx 🇬🇧 Havant, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
The Design Engineering Manager leads the design engineering function, overseeing the planning, coordination, and delivery of aircraft interior lighting and switching products. This role manages engineering resources, ensures adherence to design processes and configuration management, and monitors performance metrics across multiple development programs.
Analog Design Engineering Intern (Power Management)
Remote (🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Analog Devices Remote (🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Research and evaluate power-management architectures, and contribute to the design, simulation, modeling, and verification of DC/DC converters and their analog building blocks. Support physical implementation, integration, design reviews, and, where appropriate, laboratory evaluation of power-management IP.
Analog Design Engineering Intern (Audio)
Remote (🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Analog Devices Remote (🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Research circuit architectures and design, simulate, and verify analog and mixed-signal IC blocks, including testbench development and performance analysis across process, voltage, and temperature conditions. Collaborate with design and layout engineers on implementation, reviews, system integration, and, where appropriate, behavioural modelling and silicon evaluation.
Analog Design Engineering Intern (Audio)
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Analog Devices 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The intern will design, simulate, and verify analog and mixed-signal IC blocks while collaborating with experienced engineers on real silicon development projects. They will also contribute to circuit architecture research, physical implementation, and system-level integration.
Analog Design Engineering Intern (Power Management)
🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Analog Devices 🇬🇧 City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
The intern will contribute to the architecture, design, simulation, and verification of low-power analog and power-management IP for mixed-signal ICs. They will also collaborate with experienced engineers on real silicon development activities and laboratory evaluation.
Design Systems and Template Designer
🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Haven 🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Design and maintain a scalable ecosystem of reusable, brand-locked templates across Canva Enterprise, Smartly, and related tools, with appropriate permissions, editable elements, and automated workflows. Enable non-designers to create on-brand assets through training and documentation, while monitoring usage, maintaining quality standards, and evolving the system with the Brand team.
Design Systems & Template Designer
🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Haven 🇬🇧 Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Build and maintain a scalable, self-service template ecosystem across Canva Enterprise, Smartly, and related tools, with brand guardrails, permissions, and reusable templates. Integrate tools and automated workflows, train and support non-designers, and monitor template usage and quality in partnership with the Brand team.
Design Engineering - Launch Engineer
🇬🇧 Daventry, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Singer Vehicle Design 🇬🇧 Daventry, West Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
Assess manufacturability and process readiness at build stations across virtual, prototype, and pre-production phases, and define and control launch deliverables such as process flows, tooling readiness, build documentation, and acceptance standards. Manage manufacturing and assembly issues through containment, root cause analysis, corrective action validation, and traceable closure before series handover.
About Design Engineering careers
Design Engineering is the ultimate role for the builders who live in the code. These professionals bridge the gap between vision and reality by shipping production-ready design systems and interactive components.
Specialized in React, Tailwind, and Framer Motion, design engineers ensure that the intended vibe translates perfectly into the final product.
Companies like Vercel, Linear, and Framer value this hybrid skill set for its ability to bypass traditional handovers and move straight from design concept to live code.
Design engineers bridge design and development, building design systems, component libraries, and interactive prototypes. Roles are particularly hot at AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity where rich interfaces matter, as well as tool companies like Vercel, Framer, Linear, and Supabase. These positions often require skills in React, TypeScript, and web design.
Absolutely. Remote design engineering roles are increasingly common, especially at modern companies like Vercel, Linear, Notion, and AI startups like Midjourney. Many positions offer flexible hybrid arrangements in tech hubs like San Francisco and Seattle.
Companies like Meta, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Vercel, and AI leaders like OpenAI value candidates who combine design fundamentals with coding proficiency in HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript, and modern frameworks (React, Next.js, Svelte). Experience with design tools (Figma, Framer) and animation libraries (Framer Motion, GSAP) is highly valued. View top design engineering portfolios for examples.
Design engineers typically earn more than traditional designers due to technical skills. Entry-level positions start at $85k–$110k, mid-level roles range $120k–$160k, and senior positions command $170k–$230k+ at major tech companies. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI often pay at the top of market. Check our salary guide for comprehensive data.
Most top-tier companies, including Vercel, Linear, and Stripe, expect fluency in React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. However, the "plus" factor in 2026 is mastery of AI-assisted development tools like Cursor and GitHub Copilot. Being able to build and maintain Design Systems that scale across different frameworks is the most valuable skill in this category.
Design Engineering prioritizes the user experience and polish (the "vibe") over purely architectural backend concerns. A Design Engineer is responsible for the kinetic feel of a product, ensuring that Framer Motion transitions and accessibility standards are baked into the component library from day one. Browse Design Engineering roles to see this focus in action.