Design Engineering Jobs
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Principal Product Designer Lead
🇺🇸 United States
Linktree 🇺🇸 United States
Lead and develop a team of senior designers while remaining hands-on with high-leverage design problems. Set the design vision and craft standards to ensure quality and consistency across the product.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experience
🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Veed 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Set the design vision for generative AI experiences across VEED's products, turning frontier model capabilities into intuitive tools for marketers. Define new interaction patterns for steering AI models and establish the quality bar for design across the company.
Principal Product Designer, AI Experience
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Veed 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Set the design vision for generative AI experiences across VEED's products, turning frontier model capabilities into intuitive tools for marketers. Define new interaction patterns for steering AI models and establish the overall quality bar for design across the company.
Principal Design Manager
🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Mott Macdonald 🇬🇧 Altrincham, England, United Kingdom
Lead and oversee the technical delivery of multi-disciplinary rail civil engineering projects across the UK. Collaborate with stakeholders and project managers to ensure high-quality, safe, and sustainable engineering solutions while mentoring early career professionals.
Principal, Hardware Design Engineering (TPL)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Celestica International Lp 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead the ideation, architecture, and implementation of next-generation hardware solutions for AI data centers. Act as the primary technical lead for customer-specific designs while driving strategic technology roadmaps and mentoring engineering teams.
Chercheur(e) principal(e) et concepteur(trice) UX (Senior UX Researcher & Designer)/UX Researcher & Designer
🇨🇦 Kirkland, Quebec, Canada
Iqvia 🇨🇦 Kirkland, Quebec, Canada
Lead end-to-end UX research and design initiatives for AI-enabled clinical technology solutions within the Applied Data Science Center. Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate complex clinical and AI-assisted workflows into intuitive, scalable digital experiences.
Principal Product Designer
🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
Electronic Arts (ea) 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore
The Principal Product Designer will establish the vision for player and creator tools while setting the quality benchmark for design across the project. They will lead high-impact prototyping, integrate AI tools into the design process, and align cross-functional teams to deliver human-centric experiences.
Freelance Principal Product Designer
🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
Red Badger 🇬🇧 London, England, United Kingdom
The Principal Product Designer will lead design strategy and implementation across multi-team programmes while providing high-value consulting to shape client product initiatives. They are responsible for coaching design teams, ensuring high-quality delivery, and fostering trusted relationships with clients and stakeholders.
Principal Product Designer
🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Servicenow 🇮🇳 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Lead large, cross-product strategic initiatives to transform global work processes through beautiful and productive design. Provide strategic vision and leadership while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to define design standards and influence industry practices.
Principal, Design Engineering - Technical Program Lead (TPL)
🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Celestica 🇺🇸 Austin, Texas, United States
Lead the design and implementation of next-generation hardware architectures for high-performance AI data center solutions. Act as the primary technical contact for strategic customers to drive innovation and recommend industry best practices.
Principal UX designer
🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
Hg Insights 🇮🇳 Pune, Maharashtra, India
The Principal UX Designer will own the end-to-end design process, from research and ideation to implementation, while acting as the primary voice for UX within the organization. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define product strategy and maintain design standards as a team of one.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Palo Alto Networks 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California, United States
Lead end-to-end product design for complex cybersecurity workflows and platform integrations for Strata Cloud Manager. Drive UX strategy and champion consistency across the product ecosystem while mentoring other designers.
Principal Product Designer - Remote work | REF#303527
🌍 Remote
Bairesdev 🌍 Remote
Lead the end-to-end design process from discovery to delivery, ensuring visual and functional consistency through design systems. Collaborate with engineering and product stakeholders to deliver user-centric solutions that meet business goals.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning across Home, Search, Navigation, and Earnings surfaces. Establish design principles, architecture, and frameworks to ensure a consistent and rewarding user journey while partnering with Product and Engineering leaders.
Principal Product Designer, Core Experience
🇺🇸 United States
Fetch 🇺🇸 United States
You will lead the long-term experience direction for discovery and earning surfaces, ensuring they function as a cohesive and rewarding system. You will partner with product and engineering leaders to define strategy, establish design frameworks, and drive measurable improvements in user engagement and retention.
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.