Design Engineering Jobs
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Principal UX Designer
🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Upshop 🇨🇦 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
As a Principal UX Designer, you will lead the evolution of the Design Platform and System while mentoring junior designers. You will create high-fidelity prototypes and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure design consistency and quality across products.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems including design systems and AI workflows. Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, framing problems and driving execution.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems such as design systems and AI workflows while leading complex initiatives end-to-end. Partner with product, engineering, and research leaders to shape product vision and act as a mentor to other designers.
Senior Principal UX Designer, AI-forward Design Systems
Own and evolve foundational systems including design systems and AI workflows. Lead complex initiatives end-to-end, framing problems and driving execution.
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Product Designer (Part-Time)
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Ingenio, Llc 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Design high-agency, interactive AI experiences that provide real-time, empathetic guidance to users. Work closely with the Product Manager and Principal Engineer to create intuitive user experiences.
Principal Product Designer (Remote)
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The role involves establishing and leading end-to-end product design processes, owning UX for multiple SaaS products, and creating and scaling the company's first design system. Responsibilities also include developing user research operations and mentoring contract designers.
Principal Product Designer - REMOTE
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The role involves establishing and leading end-to-end product design processes, owning UX for multiple SaaS products, and creating and scaling the company's first design system. Responsibilities also include developing user research operations, mentoring contract designers, and partnering across product, engineering, and data teams.
Remote Principal Product Designer
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The Principal Product Designer will establish and lead end-to-end product design processes, own the UX for multiple SaaS products, and be responsible for creating and scaling the company's first design system. This role also involves mentoring contract designers and driving UX strategy alignment across the organization.
Remote Principal Product Designer Position
🌍 Remote
Jobgether 🌍 Remote
The Principal Product Designer will establish and lead end-to-end product design processes, own UX for multiple SaaS products, and create/scale the first design system. Responsibilities also include leading user research, mentoring contract designers, and partnering with product, engineering, and data teams.
Principal Product Designer – Global Product Design Org
🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Gen 🇨🇿 Capital City of Prague, Prague, Czechia
Lead collaboration within a product pillar, setting a vision that aligns cross-functional stakeholders. Shape design processes to improve efficiency and mentor designers to enhance team effectiveness.
Principal Product Designer
The role involves leading the design agenda, ensuring quality through team interactions and QAs, and directing the production of visual designs and interaction models to improve product UX. Responsibilities also include telling a compelling product story to influence stakeholders and leading collaboration with creative teams, program managers, and developers to define product features.
Principal UX Designer
🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Athenahealth 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Principal UX Designer will lead the end-to-end user experience for front office workflows in electronic health records, shaping solutions for patient access, scheduling, and registration. Responsibilities include building deep user understanding, owning information architecture, setting UX strategy, and defining high-level workflows to guide Agile teams.
Product Designer, Principal Associate Level
🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
Capital One 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States
The Product Designer will combine deep craft expertise with customer and business understanding to co-create innovative solutions for complex problems. This involves leveraging skills across interaction, visual, and service design to elevate the design practice and create artifacts like journey maps and high-fidelity prototypes.
Principal Product Designer, Social
🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Roblox 🇺🇸 San Mateo, California, United States
Lead design for a core area of Roblox Social, creating experiences that help users connect and communicate meaningfully. Own end-to-end feature design, translating complex requirements into clear, user-centered product solutions.
Principal Product Designer, Create
🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Atlassian 🇺🇸 San Francisco, California, United States
Design core AI experiences and patterns for Confluence, focusing on visual quality and brand direction. Lead design projects from creation to execution, ensuring customer value delivery and identifying opportunities to enhance products.
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.