Design Engineering Jobs

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Principal Product Designer, Energy

🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Set and lead design strategy across multiple product areas and platforms, working directly with C-suite executives to shape company direction. Establish industry-benchmark design practices and mentor senior design talent to drive long-term business value.

$80,000 - $90,000Full-timeLead
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Principal Product Designer - Market Data

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Own the design strategy for the Market Data platform across multiple financial brands, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron's. Establish shared design patterns for quotes, charts, and visualizations within the Index Design System to ensure consistency and quality.

$150,000 - $200,000Full-timePrincipal
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Principal, UX Designer

🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States

The Principal UX Designer leads the development of user experience strategies through comprehensive research, prototyping, and iterative testing. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to align design solutions with business goals and mentoring team members to maintain high quality standards.

$110,000 - $220,000Full-timePrincipal
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Principal Product Designer, Consumer

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.

$204,000 - $300,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Consumer

🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Partner with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.

$204,000 - $300,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Consumer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

Lead the design vision and strategy for a full business vertical, ensuring a cohesive end-to-end consumer experience. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute experiments and evolve the company's design system and AI workflows.

$240,000 - $300,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Consumer

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States

Lead design for a full business vertical by shaping the vision, strategy, and end-to-end execution of consumer-facing financial products. Align multiple cross-functional teams to ensure a cohesive user experience while setting high quality standards across all design artifacts.

$204,000 - $300,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal Design Manager

🇦🇺 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Lead and integrate large multidisciplinary design teams to ensure cohesive, high-quality technical outcomes across various sectors. Act as the primary client interface to define operational requirements, manage project strategy, and ensure compliance with technical and security standards.

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Principal Designer - Design Systems

🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States

Define and lead the long-term vision and strategy for eBay's design system to ensure consistent, high-quality user experiences across all platforms. Partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to drive system adoption, improve operational efficiency, and integrate emerging technologies like AI.

$224,800 - $300,100Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer - MAI Health

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The Principal Product Designer will own a key product area, driving end-to-end design from zero-to-one for AI-powered health applications. They are responsible for collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into strategy and delivering world-class consumer experiences.

$93,500 - $161,800Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Vertical Solutions

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

Own the end-to-end user experience for specific industry verticals and shared AI capabilities, moving from design to working code. Collaborate with PMs and engineering to ship production-ready software that enables human oversight of AI agents.

$172,000 - $215,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal Associate, Front End Design Systems

🇺🇸 Plano, Texas, United States

You will build and maintain reusable component libraries and design system tooling to support product engineering teams. Additionally, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, accessible, and performant user interfaces.

$119,400 - $136,200Full-timeMid-level
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Principal UX designer - Monopoly GO!

🇪🇸 Seville, Andalusia, Spain

The Principal UX Designer will own the end-to-end UX strategy and execution for product areas, driving initiatives from discovery through implementation. They will collaborate with product and development teams to create innovative gameplay experiences and evolve UX frameworks for consistency and scalability.

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Principal Product Designer, Vertical Solutions

🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States

You will own the end-to-end product experience for a specific vertical, designing and building agentic AI workflows that integrate into complex industry environments. You will collaborate with product managers and engineers to ship production-ready code while ensuring design consistency across the platform.

Full-timeSenior
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Principal Product Designer, Design Systems

🇺🇸 United States

Define and maintain the architectural direction of the Pando design system to ensure consistency and scalability across the organization. Partner with engineering to build tooling, governance, and accessibility standards while articulating a data-backed roadmap for the system.

$148,000 - $195,000Full-timePrincipal
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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.