Design Engineering Jobs
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UI/ UX Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Mind Computing Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves applying Human-Centered Design principles to develop user-centric applications, collaborating with product teams to define requirements, and conducting usability testing to enhance user experience and accessibility. Key tasks include designing accessible applications adhering to USWDS standards, creating prototypes, and leading user research efforts.
Design Systems, Product Designer
Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
Harness Remote (🇺🇸 United States of America)
The role involves designing and evolving high-quality components, patterns, and foundations for the design system, including building scalable component libraries in Figma and working within a token-based environment. This designer will partner closely with engineers to ensure clean translation from design to React implementation and raise the overall quality bar for visual design and accessibility.
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems
🇨🇦 Canada
Wealthsimple Technologies 🇨🇦 Canada
The role involves defining, evolving, and maintaining the company's visual language, component library, and interaction patterns for mobile and web experiences. Responsibilities include improving the contribution model, developing documentation, championing accessibility, and guiding product teams using the system.
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems
Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
Feverup Remote (🇪🇸 Spain)
The Senior Product Designer will lead the evolution of the design system into a robust, scalable foundation supporting product velocity, consistency, and accessibility across platforms. This involves owning the full lifecycle from audit and definition to building, documenting, and maintaining components, while acting as the key bridge between Design, Engineering, and Product.
UX Designer
🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
Wequel 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
The role involves translating user insights from qualitative and quantitative studies into clear user needs, design artifacts, and UX concepts to guide the development of future digital services. This includes creating prototypes, ensuring accessibility, and designing application-like interfaces that support complex workflows.
Graphic Designer
🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
Barrow Wise Consulting 🇺🇸 Alexandria, Virginia, United States of America
The Graphic Designer will support Barrow Wise's NSF project by creating graphic design and layouts for various print and digital media, including presentations, press kits, and trade show materials. Duties also involve illustrating complex information, creating animated content, adhering to branding guidelines, and ensuring Section 508 accessibility compliance.
UI/UX Designer
🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
Transperfect 🇿🇦 Cape Town, City of Cape Town, South Africa
The designer will be responsible for creating user interfaces and experiences for corporate and marketing websites, including designing wireframes, mockups, and high-fidelity designs for new features. Key duties also involve contributing to the creation and maintenance of a shared design system and ensuring designs meet accessibility and brand standards.
UX Designer - Júnior
🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
Ey 🇧🇷 Salvador, Região Metropolitana de Salvador, Brazil
The role involves participating in collaborative dynamics like Discovery and Kickoff, structuring low and medium-fidelity wireframes, and developing navigable prototypes while applying layout, typography, and accessibility principles. Responsibilities also include working in a multidisciplinary team to gather information, prototype digital products using a design system, and contributing basic design knowledge.
Senior Product Designer
🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
Instructure, Inc. 🇺🇸 Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America
The Senior Product Designer will play an influential role in designing workflows for educators, students, and support staff, while partnering closely with product managers and developers to solve complex problems and ensure high-quality, accessible solutions. Responsibilities also include advocating for accessibility, leading customer research, measuring product success post-release, and building prototypes for user testing.
Product Designer 2 (Mid-Level)
🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Togetherwork 🇩🇪 Euskirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
The role involves owning the UX for specific products, modernizing complex or legacy workflows, and improving clarity, usability, and accessibility by reviewing analytics and participating in user interviews. Designers will also collaborate closely with product managers and engineers from discovery through delivery while contributing to shared design system components.
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.