Design Engineering Jobs
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Lead Automation Engineer Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Design and manage world-class supply chain automation projects to enhance guest experience by increasing speed, accuracy, and efficiency. This involves owning complex projects from concept to deliverables, partnering with internal and external teams, and ensuring successful deployment of automation technologies.
Section Manager - Test Facilities Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Lockland, Hamilton County, OH 45215, United States of America
Ge Aerospace 🇺🇸 Lockland, Hamilton County, OH 45215, United States of America
This role leads the Test Facilities Design Engineering section strategy focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), owning the end-to-end execution of test facilities systems and reducing test time lost due to disruptions. Responsibilities also include driving workforce planning, leading and developing teams, and fostering continuous improvement through technical rigor and digital tool implementation.
ASIC/FPGA Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The manager will oversee a portfolio of two to four ASIC/FPGA development programs, guiding the technical baseline and execution while being responsible for hiring and supporting the engineering team. Responsibilities also include implementing common design practices, ensuring first-time quality through comprehensive verification, and developing stakeholder relationships.
ASIC/FPGA Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA 90245, United States of America
The manager will oversee a portfolio of two to four ASIC/FPGA development programs, guiding the technical baseline and execution while hiring and supporting engineers, including project leads. Responsibilities also include implementing common design practices, ensuring first-time quality through verification, and developing stakeholder relationships.
Section Manager - Test Facilities Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
Ge Aerospace 🇺🇸 Evendale, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States of America
This role leads the Test Facilities Design Engineering section strategy focused on Safety, Quality, Delivery, and Cost (SQDC), owning the end-to-end execution of test facilities systems and reducing test time lost to disruptions. Responsibilities also include driving workforce planning, leading and mentoring teams, and fostering continuous improvement to meet SQDC objectives.
MGR DESIGN ENGINEERING 1
🇺🇸 Newport News, Virginia, United States of America
Huntington Ingalls 🇺🇸 Newport News, Virginia, United States of America
The role involves designing major components or functional system portions to improve products and facilitate manufacturing, requiring the development of preliminary layouts and investigation of design factors like manufacturability and material availability. Responsibilities also include leading a team, managing workloads, reporting on schedule/cost/quality performance, and evaluating design changes, specifically for the Virginia Class model conversion process (Catia to NX).
Design Engineering Specialist
🇺🇸 Mossville, Peoria County, IL 61552, United States of America
Caterpillar Inc. 🇺🇸 Mossville, Peoria County, IL 61552, United States of America
The specialist will focus on designing, developing, building, and implementing new products, components, or technologies, specifically helping to design and troubleshoot 7L-9L inline-6 diesel engine systems for various applications. Responsibilities include developing design parameters, technical specifications, guiding technical design evolution, and participating in supplier assessment.
ASIC and Logic Design Engineering Manager (Teradyne, North Reading)
🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
Teradyne 🇺🇸 North Reading, MA 01864, United States of America
The Logic Design Manager will lead a team of 4-6 engineers in designing and verifying FPGAs for next-generation products, requiring close collaboration with other engineering disciplines. This involves leading multiple simultaneous development projects, managing schedules, budgets, staffing, and contributing to RTL code implementation when necessary.
Senior Associate, Design Engineering
🇸🇬 Singapore
Digital Realty 🇸🇬 Singapore
The Senior Associate, Design Engineering manages and develops design drawings and technical engineering documents for a portfolio of data centers, supporting commercial opportunities and lifecycle orders. This includes generating technical handover documents, updating floor plans using ACAD and DCIM software, and coordinating capacity needs with relevant teams.
Junior Mechanical Engineer - Math, Physics & Robust Design Engineering, 6 Months Contract
🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
The Lego Group 🇩🇰 7190 Billund, Denmark
The role involves joining the Exploration Engineering team for a 6-month contract to develop future capabilities for LEGO elements, focusing on ensuring high controllability and improving quality approval. Specific tasks include redesigning the standard LEGO connector matrix using math and physics, building predictable connector designs, and transferring complex geometry development to a simplified standard.
Design Engineering Lead
🇺🇸 Carson, California, United States of America
Ducommun 🇺🇸 Carson, California, United States of America
The Design Engineering Lead is responsible for providing technical leadership, overseeing system-level mechanical design, and executing projects from concept through production. This involves leading design reviews, ensuring timely task execution, mentoring engineers, and driving mechanical development across the entire product lifecycle.
Ship Design Engineering Advisor
🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
Caci International 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
This role involves providing high-level technical expertise and management guidance across strategic naval programs, leading as a Subject Matter Expert on technical projects, and offering advice to design and technical managers.
Out of Production Systems Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 Seal Beach, California, United States of America
This role involves leading multi-discipline engineering teams responsible for sustaining, modifying, and supporting aircraft and systems that are no longer in production, ensuring safe, cost-effective, and timely engineering solutions. The manager will establish technical strategy, manage multiple projects like COSP and SRPs, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive technical reviews and investigations.
Out of Production Systems Design Engineering Manager
🇺🇸 Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Boeing 🇺🇸 Seal Beach, California, United States of America
This role leads multi-discipline engineering teams responsible for sustaining, modifying, and supporting aircraft and systems that are no longer in production, ensuring safe, cost-effective, and timely engineering solutions for legacy products. Responsibilities include establishing technical strategy, managing multiple projects like COSP and SRPs, ensuring regulatory compliance, driving technical reviews, and coaching engineering staff.
Physical Security Engineer, Data Center Design Engineering
🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio, United States of America
This role involves leading the design of physical security elements such as cameras, access control, and intrusion detection for Data Center projects, while collaborating with internal security teams to develop design standards and evaluate risks and benefits.
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.