Senior AI Design Systems Engineer

Deel; España; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible office membership

Visibility into career growth and new-

Job summary

Deel is seeking a senior individual contributor who blends design craft with frontend engineering to build an AI-driven design system and production interfaces. You will design the substrate, define workflows, and work hands-on in Figma and production code to prove the system works at scale.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and design-system teams to maintain high standards, push generative UI capabilities, and craft reusable playbooks for the wider design org across a global SaaS

Qualifications

• Real taste for layout, typography, interaction, motion with polish
• Ability to design interfaces and prototype in production code quickly
• Experience designing systems and design tokens for AI-assisted workflows
• Senior level: 7+ years in product design and frontend engineering in complex products

Responsibilities

• Architect the design system, tokens, and components as the substrate AI generates against
• Stay hands-on by designing real interfaces and prototyping in production frontend code
• Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI and establish fidelity benchmarks
• Drive the AI-native workflow across the design organization and maintain current standards
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and design-system contributors to ensure round-tripping to shared surfaces
• Prototype and evaluate AI-generated interfaces as a product capability and roadmap item
• Create playbooks and prompts to enable the wider design org to reuse the system

Skills

Design

Code & prototype

Systems thinking

AI-native tooling

Senior designer + frontend

Tools

TypeScript/React

Figma

HTML/CSS

Job description

Deel is seeking a senior individual contributor who blends design craft with frontend engineering to build an AI-driven design system and production interfaces. You will design the substrate, define workflows, and work hands-on in Figma and production code to prove the system works at scale.

You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and design-system teams to maintain high standards, push generative UI capabilities, and craft reusable playbooks for the wider design org across a global SaaS