Design Engineering Jobs
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Principal Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Own the end-to-end process from discovery and prototyping to final launch in collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design and evolution of design foundations across mobile and web platforms to ensure high craft and consistency. Collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and treat the design system as a product for internal users.
Principal Product Designer
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Lead the design vision and strategy for a significant area of the farmer-facing product experience. Partner with product and engineering teams to define, prototype, and launch intuitive solutions for complex agricultural challenges.
Principal Product Designer - Design Systems
🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Halter 🇳🇿 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
You will lead the design of a significant product area by setting and advancing design foundations across mobile and web platforms. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineers to shape technical architecture and mentor designers to raise the overall quality of the product experience.
Principal Product Designer, Core
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Betterup 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Architect the design vision for core product experiences and drive high standards of design quality across the organization. Partner with executive leadership to shape the company's AI strategy and lead complex design challenges from concept to execution.
Director, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Lead the team responsible for building and evolving eBay's design system while focusing on talent development and team growth. Partner with the Principal of Design Systems to translate strategic vision into clear priorities, ownership, and high-quality execution.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle of large-scale Oracle Cloud data center critical infrastructure from concept through commissioning. Coordinate with cross-disciplinary engineering teams and stakeholders to ensure designs are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the end-to-end design lifecycle of large-scale Oracle Cloud data center critical infrastructure from concept through commissioning. Coordinate with cross-disciplinary engineering teams and external partners to ensure designs are scalable, reliable, and aligned with business outcomes.
Principal Data Center Design Manager
🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Oracle 🇺🇸 Nashville, Tennessee, United States
The Principal Design Manager leads the end-to-end design lifecycle for large-scale Oracle Cloud data center projects. They partner with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure infrastructure designs are delivered safely and reliably while resolving complex technical challenges.
Director, Design Systems
🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
Ebay 🇺🇸 Portland, Oregon, United States
You will lead and build a high-performing Design Systems team while coaching designers to strengthen their craft and career growth. Additionally, you will partner with the Principal to translate vision into clear priorities and ensure effective collaboration across Design, Product, and Engineering.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Hubspot 🇺🇸 United States
Lead the design of a cohesive, AI-powered prospecting experience across HubSpot's marketing, sales, and service product suites. Partner with cross-functional leadership to define product vision, influence direction, and drive alignment across multiple teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇲🇽 Mexico
Deel 🇲🇽 Mexico
Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer to lead frontier design initiatives, focusing on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Rapidly prototype novel interaction paradigms and AI-powered workflows to inform the broader design system.
Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Deel 🌍 Remote
Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer to lead frontier design initiatives, focusing on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Rapidly prototype novel interaction paradigms and AI-powered workflows while ensuring coherence across Deel's vertical product teams.
Principal Product Designer
🇺🇸 United States
Deel 🇺🇸 United States
Lead frontier design initiatives focused on orchestration and intent-to-resolution experiences. Collaborate with the Chief Design Officer and cross-functional leads to prototype and ship novel AI-powered interaction paradigms.
Principal, UX Designer
🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Walmart 🇺🇸 Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
The Principal UX Designer leads user experience strategy by conducting research, journey mapping, and usability testing to enhance product interaction. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to align design solutions with business goals while mentoring team members on best practices.
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.