Design Engineering Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Yahoo 🇫🇷 65400 Uz, France
Lead the visual and interaction language for Yahoo Home across mobile and desktop platforms. Partner with product and engineering teams to design community-driven features and AI-powered personalization surfaces.
Principal Product Designer, Core Transfer Experience
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
You will own the end-to-end design vision for the core remittance flow, guiding millions of customers through financial transactions. This includes leading the navigation architecture and interaction language while simplifying and unifying systems across product surfaces.
Principal Product Designer, Core Transfer Experience
🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Remitly 🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Lead the end-to-end design vision for the core remittance flow, focusing on navigation patterns and interaction systems. Provide UX leadership across multiple squads to unify the product funnel from the home screen through post-submit experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Twinkl Educational Publishing 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lead the end-to-end design experience and oversee the development of a design system to ensure quality and consistency across all products. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support the product development process from conception to launch.
Principal Product Designer
🇧🇷 Brazil
Safeguard Global 🇧🇷 Brazil
Own and drive design across multiple product teams, ensuring quality and setting direction. Shape product strategy in partnership with product and engineering teams.
Principal Product Designer - Strategic Discovery (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Principal Product Designer will lead strategic product discoveries and apply systemic design thinking to align cross-functional teams. They will translate insights into user experience concepts and work with senior Product Management to influence the product roadmap.
Principal Product Designer - Loyalty (all genders) - parental leave cover
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
The Principal Product Designer will oversee the overall Plus experience, manage their own projects, and mentor other designers. They will shape the strategic UX and visual direction for Zalando’s loyalty ecosystem and ensure alignment with business strategy.
Principal Product Designer - Loyalty (all genders) - parental leave cover
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead the strategic UX and visual direction for the Zalando Plus loyalty ecosystem, designing gamified systems and high-level visions. Mentor other designers and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align business strategy with emotional customer experiences.
Principal Product Designer - Strategic Discovery (all genders)
🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Zalando 🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany
Lead strategic product discovery and research to translate complex user insights into structural UX concepts and interaction models. Partner with senior product management to align qualitative benchmarks with the long-term product roadmap and business goals.
Principal UX Researcher
🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Autodesk 🇺🇸 Novi, Michigan, United States of America
Lead research to identify and define emerging personas across the operations lifecycle and clarify how work gets done today. Partner with product and business teams to drive research-informed strategies that support adoption and long-term value.
Artificial Intelligence - Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
Pellera Technologies 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States of America
The Principal Designer will design and develop high-quality AI-driven solutions while collaborating with stakeholders to define project requirements and timelines. This role includes facilitating workshops, understanding user behavior, and proposing workflows that enhance user experience.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will own the end-to-end design vision for SeekrGuard, focusing on AI model evaluation and certification workflows. This includes leading user discovery, defining systems-level UX, and collaborating with Product and Engineering to make model risk legible and trustworthy.
Principal Product Designer, Questbank
🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Questrade Financial Group 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Lead design on complex problems across the consumer banking platform, ensuring a coherent and integrated experience. Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to influence product strategy and elevate the design practice.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Reston, Virginia, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will drive SeekrGuard's design from discovery and concept through detailed design, delivery, and iteration. They will define information architecture and interaction patterns while leading user discovery and research.
Principal Product Designer, SeekrGuard
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
Seekr 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States of America
The Principal Product Designer will drive SeekrGuard's design from discovery and concept through detailed design, delivery, and iteration. They will define information architecture and interaction patterns while leading user discovery and research.
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.