Design Engineering Jobs
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Product Designer - Design Systems (Contract)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Zello 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The role involves taking architectural ownership of design system work across iOS, Android, and React, while also contributing to product design projects. The contractor will manage their own backlog and ensure cross-platform consistency.
Lead UX Product Designer – Design Systems
🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Target 🇺🇸 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
As a Lead UX Designer, you will drive the evolution of Target's Design System, ensuring high-quality, usable design components that enhance user experiences. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to create reusable and accessible design components while mentoring other designers.
Design Systems Engineer, HMI
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves researching HMI and accessibility standards to build and document a foundational design system for safety-critical hardware interfaces. You will audit existing interfaces and define visual guidelines for state, alarms, and interaction conventions.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Revel 🇺🇸 United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, creating wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and prototypes. Collaborate with engineers and product managers to build scalable design systems and intuitive interfaces for hardware control software.
Senior UX Designer: Product & Systems
🇺🇸 United States of America
Extra Duty Solutions 🇺🇸 United States of America
The role involves owning the full design spectrum, including research, interaction, and visual design for officer and customer portals. The designer will build a token-based design system from the ground up and create end-to-end flows for complex operational workflows.
Product Designer: Design Systems (12 month FTC)
🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
Financial Times 🇬🇧 City of London, London, United Kingdom
The Product Designer will design and evolve reusable components and patterns within the FT's design system, Origami, to improve consistency across teams. They will collaborate with product designers, engineers, and product managers to ensure high-quality product delivery across web and mobile platforms.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Fal 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end product design process for features across web and dedicated mobile experiences. Build and maintain the design system while partnering with engineering and product management to iterate based on user feedback.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 United States of America
Own the end-to-end design of an AI-native legal platform, focusing on multi-agent workflows and autonomous legal team interfaces. Collaborate with founders and engineers to build design systems and translate complex legal workflows into intuitive user experiences.
Marketing Web Designer
🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Gc Ai 🇺🇸 California, United States of America
Lead the visual identity and design across all marketing and sales channels, including the website, social media, and sales collateral. Own and evolve the company's design system while managing the website transition to Sanity.
UX Lead / Senior Product Designer, Model & Simulation
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Code Metal 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end UX design for a complex geospatial and simulation platform, translating technical requirements into intuitive workflows. Own the design system and collaborate closely with product managers and frontend engineers to ensure high-fidelity implementation.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Ibotta 🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design of new B2B features and products from conception through launch. Expand and maintain the design system while collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to shape product strategy.
Product Designer
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Town.com, Inc. 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States of America
Own core product surfaces end-to-end, from problem definition and high-fidelity design to shipping front-end code. Define new interaction paradigms for AI-native capabilities and evolve the company's shared design system.
Graphic Designer (internal communications)
🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Prowess Consulting 🇺🇸 Bellevue, Washington, United States of America
Design visual assets such as slides, email headers, and infographics for internal communications. Create scalable design systems and maintain brand consistency while collaborating with writers and project managers.
Sr. UX Designer, Database UX
🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Amazon 🇺🇸 Santa Clara County, California, United States of America
Own the end-to-end customer experience across the AWS database portfolio, from initial research to functional prototyping. Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to define design strategies and implement high-visibility features using the AWS Design System.
Staff Product Designer - Design Systems - 100% Remote - EMEA
Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
Hostaway Remote (🇪🇸 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
You will lead the strategy and development of the design system while collaborating with design and engineering teams. Additionally, you will contribute to product features and advocate for the integration of AI into design workflows.
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.