Design Engineering Jobs
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Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and creating standards to improve design quality across the organization. You will consult for engineers, write specification documents, and build a best-in-class design system from the ground up.
Staff Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve navigation and UI patterns.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and designing complex SaaS workflows from first principles. You will also build and refine the design system while consulting for engineers to improve overall product quality.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America)
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Staff Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Ashby Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Product Designer (Design Systems, Internal Tools)
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Solomon Page 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The role involves auditing and evolving a design system for a complex back-end tool to improve consistency, scalability, and usability. A key focus is structuring documentation to support AI-enabled workflows and augmented models for faster prototyping.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve information architecture and UI patterns.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult for engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Ashby 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves taking ownership of large product features and building a best-in-class design system from the ground up. You will consult with engineers, write detailed specification documents, and use heuristics to improve the overall user experience.
Staff Product Designer
You will own the end-to-end product experience for Walrus, leading discovery and design processes to create intuitive developer tools. You will partner with engineering and product teams to define complex technical workflows, establish design systems, and ensure high-quality implementation.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Develop and evolve shared design patterns and components across Figma's suite of products to ensure a consistent user experience. Collaborate with product management and engineering to drive the adoption and continuous improvement of the design system.
Product Designer, Design Systems
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
The role focuses on building and evolving shared patterns and components for Figma's Design Systems team to ensure a consistent experience across multiple products. Key duties include defining the vision for shared patterns and collaborating with engineering and product management to drive system adoption.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Lead and grow the team responsible for Figma's internal design systems, foundations, and infrastructure. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve the operating model and ensure quality and coherence across the product suite.
Manager, Design - Systems & Infrastructure
🇺🇸 United States of America
Figma 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead and grow the team responsible for Figma's internal design systems, foundations, and infrastructure. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to evolve the operating model and ensure coherence across the product suite.
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.