Senior Design Engineer GM Design System

Job Description

Were looking for a Senior Design Engineer to help evolve and scale our enterprise design system for the this role youll collaborate with designers engineers and platform teams to build accessible performant and reusable components that power consistent experiences across multiple products and platforms. Youll also contribute to the processes tools and standards that enable design excellence at scale including establishing the patterns and infrastructure needed to support AI-assisted design and development workflows.

• Develop and maintain a scalable design system authored in Stencil and distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components.

• Extend the system to React and Angular consumers through framework wrappers and integration support.

• Write semantic accessible HTML aligned with WCAG and WAI-ARIA best practices including keyboard navigation focus management and screen reader support. Ensure consistent behavior across browsers devices and assistive technologies.

• Build modular maintainable CSS for large-scale applications. Build flexible reusable components with a focus on performance accessibility and self-documentation.

• Translate Figma designs into production-ready code collaborating closely with designers.

• Contribute to design system documentation and to the coding standards and best practices that keep it consistent over time.

• Work with engineering teams to integrate components into CI/CD pipelines and support robust testing (unit visual regression accessibility).

• Explore and integrate AI capabilities into design system workflows streamlining component generation design token mapping and automated documentation.

• Make the design system consumable by AI coding tools and agents as easily as by people publishing components tokens and usage guidelines in machine-readable formats with Storybook as the foundation.

• A bachelors degree in a technical or design related field or work experience commensurate with education.

• 5 years of experience working as a professional Design Engineer or Design Technologist.

• Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries. Strong experience with modern HTML modern CSS architecture vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript (independent of framework abstractions).

• Solid understanding of front-end architecture and strategies for scaling CSS in enterprise environments.

• Deep knowledge of semantic HTML WCAG and ARIA accessibility standards.

• Experience with progressive enhancement and performance optimization.

• Experience with design tokens Style Dictionary or similar tools.

• Hands-on experience or active experimentation with AI-enabled design systems LLM context generation (e.g. custom instructions rules or system prompts for code assistants) or AI-driven UI workflows.

Experience building Web Components
Experience with React Angular or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
Experience building with Stencil.
Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g. Jest Playwright) and visual regression tools.
Curiosity for emerging front-end techniques and a passion for continuous learning.
Background in web design design tooling or collaborating heavily with design teams.

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