AI‑Driven Product Design Engineer: Prototyping & UX

ESW; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Healthcare allowance

Pension & life insurance

Employee assistance

Flyefit membership

Cycle to Work

Tax Saver Scheme

Development opportunities

Hybrid working

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

ESW is hiring a Product Design Engineer in Ireland to take ideas from concept through working experiences using AI-assisted tools and design systems. You will prototype, test, and refine, ensuring what ships aligns with design intent.

You will work closely with Product and Engineering to decide where design can directly contribute and where Engineering takes over, while maintaining usability and accessibility standards.

Qualifications

• Strong product design across UX, interaction and visual design.
• Portfolio showing product thinking and UI design including AI-enabled prototypes.
• Experience taking digital products from concept through to implementation.
• Experience with design systems, component libraries and reusable UI patterns.
• Understanding of coding concepts; full development background not required.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, v0 or similar.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and responsive design.
• Confident working with clients and stakeholders; able to present ideas and act on feedback.
• Comfortable with undefined problems and exploring what to build.

Responsibilities

• Take design ideas from concept to working experiences using AI to prototype, test, and refine them.
• Develop a consistent approach to AI usage across tools and workflows.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to determine where design can extend or be handed over.
• Own design problems from exploration to a working solution.
• Work with clients and internal stakeholders to understand problems and explore solutions.
• Implement and refine UI in product codebases with engineering support as needed.
• Design and build reusable components and patterns for our design system.
• Improve existing products and test ideas in context.
• Share new AI-enabled workflows with the design team to accelerate prototyping and testing.
• Maintain high standards for usability, accessibility, interaction and visual design.
• Help shape the Design Engineering role at ESW.

Skills

Product design

UX design

UI design

AI-enabled prototyping

Design systems

Component libraries

Responsive design

Accessibility

client/stakeholder collaboration

Problem framing

Coding concepts

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

v0

Job description

ESW is hiring a Product Design Engineer in Ireland to take ideas from concept through working experiences using AI-assisted tools and design systems. You will prototype, test, and refine, ensuring what ships aligns with design intent.

You will work closely with Product and Engineering to decide where design can directly contribute and where Engineering takes over, while maintaining usability and accessibility standards.