Design Engineering Jobs

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Head of Design

🇫🇮 Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Define and drive the long-term strategy for the Design discipline while leading, coaching, and developing senior design talent. Partner with creative and game directors to ensure the design organization is equipped to realize the studio's creative ambitions.

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Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, AI Enablement

🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Design and implement agent-assisted pipelines to analyze large-scale system logs and telemetry to generate actionable user insights. Define and track system-level KPIs and lead complex experiments to optimize AI infrastructure and developer workflows.

$159,000 - $230,000Full-timeSenior
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Advanced Tool Design Manager

🇺🇸 New Kensington, Pennsylvania, United States

The Advanced Tool Design Manager leads the design, development, and validation of complex progressive stamping dies and precision tooling systems. This role provides strategic direction for tooling innovation, automation integration, and manufacturing scalability while managing engineering resources and cross-functional project teams.

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Senior Product Designer

🌍 Remote

Lead the design of end-to-end user journeys across web and mobile platforms while evolving scalable design systems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape requirements and validate design decisions through user research and testing.

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Lead Product Designer | Mobile / Games

🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia

The Lead Product Designer will own the design direction for the PokerArena mobile game, overseeing navigation, home screen, and progression systems. They will lead a small team of designers while remaining hands-on to solve complex design challenges.

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Mechanical Virtual Design Manager (VDM)/BIM Manager

🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia, United States

Lead the BIM department by providing vision, managing schedules, and supervising BIM coordinators across multiple locations. Responsible for maintaining company standards, managing software/hardware inventory, and overseeing project budgets and quality control for mechanical systems.

$120,000 - $170,000Full-timeManager
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Design Manager

🇬🇧 Exeter, England, United Kingdom

The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary design teams to meet client scopes, budgets, and timescales within the Defence or Technology sectors. They are responsible for coordinating design activities across various teams and managing project risks throughout the lifecycle.

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Senior Product Designer

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

The role involves leading the end-to-end design process from discovery and user research to high-fidelity UI design for web and mobile. You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to solve complex customer problems and evolve the design system.

$90,000 - $110,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Manager - Water Infrastructure

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary water infrastructure projects, ensuring technical development, accurate forecasting, and effective stakeholder communication. They are responsible for managing project lifecycles from options assessment to detailed design while fostering a collaborative team culture.

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Engineer - Design Engineering & Feasibility Support

🇺🇸 Long Beach, California, United States

Lead the development of design feasibility from concept to production, focusing on exterior lighting and vehicle layouts. Balance functional and attribute trade-offs while providing CAD-based zone layouts and surface proposals to support design leadership.

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Senior Technical Design Manager

🇲🇾 Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia

Lead and manage the technical design and drafting team for furniture manufacturing and interior projects. Review and approve technical drawings to ensure compliance with manufacturing standards and project timelines.

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Lead Product Designer

🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Lead and coach a small team of product designers while remaining hands-on in designing high-impact product experiences. Drive design quality and consistency across web and mobile platforms and evolve the company's design system.

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User Experience (UX) Designer

🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom

Lead high-impact UX work by defining product design strategies and creating specifications, prototypes, and mock-ups. Collaborate with engineering and product partners to build alignment and implement scalable design solutions based on user data and technical constraints.

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Ice Cream Product Design Manager

🇮🇹 Alba, Piedmont, Italy

The Ice Cream Product Design Manager will lead product development, industrialization, and continuous improvement projects within the ice cream category. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage formulations, conduct laboratory and pilot plant trials, and ensure compliance with quality and food safety standards.

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Lead Product Designer

🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

You will define the product direction for Opacity, designing new features from initial sketches to final UI while ensuring a seamless user experience. You will also collaborate closely with developers and maintain the design system to ensure product consistency as it scales.

Onsite$65,000 - $65,000Full-timeLead
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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.