Design Engineering Jobs
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Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Leads complex cross-team initiatives to build scalable, AI-enhanced design processes and integrations. Aligns stakeholders around design decisions and elevates the quality of work across the product through mentorship and critique.
Principal Engineer, R&D – Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
The Kraft Heinz Company 🇺🇸 Glenview, Illinois, United States of America
Research, design, and develop mechatronic systems and machine components for food process and packaging projects. This includes performing CAE simulations, creating conceptual and detailed CAD designs, and overseeing product fabrication and testing.
Principal Product Designer, Ecosystems
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Life360 Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead end-to-end product design for the Ecosystems team, focusing on integrating external partner data and experiences into the Life360 app. This includes rapid prototyping of AI-native concepts and developing scalable design frameworks to unify standards across platforms.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and maintaining a high bar for UX and visual design. Drive the evolution of design systems into AI-ready, machine-readable foundations to enable scalable and consistent customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Olx Remote (🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and automated workflows.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to enable machine-readable patterns and AI-assisted creation.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Olx Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the integration of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer, Real Estate
Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Olx Remote (🇵🇹 Lisbon, Portugal)
Lead the craft and quality of the Real Estate vertical by defining interaction patterns and scalable design systems. Drive the evolution of AI-ready design foundations to create intelligent, consistent, and machine-readable customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer (Contract-to-Hire)
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Chorus Innovations Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Lead the design strategy and vision to create intuitive user experiences for complex healthcare technology platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transform confusing workflows into elegant solutions while mentoring other designers.
Principal UX Designer, AWS Security, Search, Observability & Governance
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Define and own the end-to-end design strategy for AWS's security, observability, and agentic AI product portfolio. Lead the design of complex interfaces while mentoring senior designers and driving design-as-code practices.
Electronic Design Engineering, Principal
🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
Macom Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc. 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland
The principal design engineer will architect, design, and characterize high-frequency ICs from concept through to productization. They will also manage projects, support customers, and collaborate with test and application engineering teams.
Principal UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America)
Newfold Digital Remote (🇺🇸 Texas, United States of America)
The Principal UX Designer will lead end-to-end UX strategy for portal surfaces and mentor the design team to ensure high-quality execution. They will collaborate cross-functionally to drive product engagement while integrating AI-native workflows into the design process.
Principal UX Designer
🇧🇪 Mechelen, Belgium
Cochlear 🇧🇪 Mechelen, Belgium
Lead UX strategy and design quality across the Audiology portfolio by providing hands-on delivery and influencing cross-functional teams. Ensure coherent, evidence-based, and compliant end-to-end experiences for clinicians, recipients, and partners.
Principal Product Designer
🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Safewill 🇦🇺 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
You will drive product discovery and strategy by turning user insights into clear, actionable product directions. Additionally, you will lead end-to-end design processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality, impactful product outcomes.
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.