Design Engineering Jobs

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General Manager – Optical Design Engineering (ODE)

🇩🇪 Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The General Manager will have full P&L ownership and end-to-end responsibility for the strategy, growth, and execution of the Optical Design Engineering business unit. They will lead a global organization to drive recurring revenue, operational efficiency, and portfolio innovation across the DES division.

Onsite$207,360 - $379,200Full-timeSenior
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Staff Product Designer

🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America

You will lead design initiatives for core products and modernize the car ownership experience through elegant, frictionless interfaces. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to evolve the design system and apply AI to create more personal user experiences.

$190,000 - $230,000Full-timeSenior
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Principal UX Designer

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The Principal UX Designer will own and drive the end-to-end UX strategy for key infrastructure products, setting standards for design quality and innovation. This role involves partnering with product managers and engineers to define product direction while leading and mentoring other designers.

Hybrid$120,000 - $150,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead UX Product Designer - Guest UX

🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

The Lead UX Designer will define experience strategy, drive complex initiatives forward, and ensure solutions benefit both the guest and the business by shaping AI-powered campaign workflows for partners and team members. Responsibilities include creating UX patterns, defining UX north stars, leading end-to-end UX for ad-tech features, and translating complex mechanics into understandable visualizations.

Hybrid$128,000 - $231,000Full-timeSenior
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Senior Product Designer – My Account (Self-Serve & Transactional Experience)

🇵🇱 Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

The Senior Product Designer will own and lead the end-to-end product design for the My Account experience, covering discovery through continuous optimization of transactional and self-service journeys. This includes shaping flows like orders, invoices, and account management to boost adoption and reduce customer support dependency.

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Lead Product Designer, Growth

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

The Lead Product Designer, Growth will own the end-to-end design and set the design direction for Rakuten’s core member experience across Web, iOS, and Android, from initial problem framing through to shipped product. This role involves defining foundational UX patterns, driving research, and shaping squad-level vision through compelling presentations.

Hybrid$132,082.5 - $226,820Full-timeSenior
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Senior Graphic Designer - Gateway

🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America

The Senior Graphic Designer will lead the creation of visually compelling designs across multiple platforms, working closely with the Public Affairs team to produce static and motion graphics for public-facing communication. Accountabilities include designing various visual content, creating motion graphics, translating complex data into engaging narratives, and leading creative concepting sessions.

Onsite$100,000 - $180,000Full-timeSenior
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Product Designer III - Design Systems (Hybrid, CAN)

🇨🇦 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

The role involves serving as a consistency champion for the evolving design system, partnering with leadership, designers, and engineers to scale components, patterns, and guidelines from Figma. Responsibilities include driving discovery, evangelizing the design system, communicating design rationale, and partnering with engineers to ensure adherence to coding standards like accessibility.

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Digital Product Designer

🇬🇧 Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

The role involves defining, executing, and delivering against project goals for diverse financial products, working closely with leadership and cross-functional partners to articulate future-state experiences. Responsibilities also include translating business inputs and user insights into actionable design solutions and owning the delivery of design tasks.

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Design Engineering Manager

🇺🇸 Plainville, CT 06062, United States of America

This leadership role focuses on owning and improving the engineering execution system for efficient, high-quality delivery across sustaining engineering, change management, and product development work streams globally. Key functions include leading engineering operations, overseeing CAD/PDM administration, managing configuration, and providing design engineering oversight to ensure predictable workflow from request through release.

Onsite$114,730 - $213,070Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Fresno, California, United States of America

The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input, and ensuring compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing and reviewing engineering documentation, managing design interfaces, and supporting quality control procedures.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States of America

The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input and oversight to ensure compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across various contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 Sacramento, California, United States of America

These roles involve coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input, and ensuring compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across various contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Design Engineering Technical Lead

🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America

This role involves coordinating multidisciplinary design efforts across large, complex transportation and transit projects, providing technical input and oversight to ensure compliance with codes and standards. Responsibilities also include preparing, reviewing, and coordinating engineering documentation and managing design interfaces across multiple contracts and delivery packages.

Onsite$120,000 - $165,000Full-timeSenior
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Lead Product Designer, AI & Agentic Workflows

🇺🇸 United States of America

The Lead Designer will define AI-native features and platform-level systems for agentic workflows, designing interactions where users and agents collaborate on a visual canvas to achieve structured outcomes. Responsibilities include using code for exploration, rapid prototyping with AI-native tools, and creating interaction models for human and multi-agent collaboration.

Hybrid$150,000 - $188,000Full-timeSenior
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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.