Lead Design Engineer — AI Design Systems

Samsara Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 151,000 - 196,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, employee-led remote model

Professional development stipend

Comprehensive health and parentalleave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer in Canada to build scalable AI design systems and tooling for web and mobile. You’ll shape components, tokens, and guidelines, working across design and engineering to raise quality and velocity.

You will codify principles and ensure high‑quality AI generation, with influence on how teams build and how customers experience products, all while supporting Samsara’s long‑term growth and remote-first culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering for web and mobile.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.
• Shipped design system or component library with portfolio/case studies.
• Strong interaction and visual design with good judgment on patterns vs invention.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools in regular practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make) with shipped work.
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

Responsibilities

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure, preventing AI slop in customer-facing products.
• Translate system decisions into code with shared ownership of quality and performance.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed with integrity.
• Collaborate with designers/engineers to incorporate feedback and usage data.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with design and engineering teams.
• Champion Samsara’s principles as the company scales globally.

Skills

Experience in design engineering

Interaction design

Visual design

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS or HCI

Tools

Design tokens

Theming

Accessibility standards

AI design tools

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer in Canada to build scalable AI design systems and tooling for web and mobile. You’ll shape components, tokens, and guidelines, working across design and engineering to raise quality and velocity.

You will codify principles and ensure high‑quality AI generation, with influence on how teams build and how customers experience products, all while supporting Samsara’s long‑term growth and remote-first culture.