Senior AI Design Engineer

Deel; Portugal; Teletrabalho; EUR 63 000 - 119 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible office membership with IWG

Resumo da oferta

Deel is seeking a senior individual contributor in Product Design to build the substrate that AI uses to generate products. You’ll design the Design Systems, tokens, and components, and prototype in production front-end code to prove the system’s capabilities.

You’ll partner with design leadership to scale AI adoption across the design organization and work cross-functionally with Engineering and Product. You spend time in Figma and in a code editor, balancing craft with engineering, and you

Qualificações

• 7+ years in product design + front-end engineering in complex products.
• Ability to design interfaces quickly and prototype in production front-end code.
• Experience with design systems, tokens, and component libraries.
• Comfort designing and coding to test and validate AI-driven workflows.
• Strong understanding of UI polish, typography, motion, and layout.

Responsabilidades

• Architect the Design Systems, tokens, and components that AI generates against.
• Stay hands-on by designing real interfaces and prototyping in production front-end code.
• Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI and design-to-code fidelity.
• Drive the AI-native workflow across the design organization and embed it across teams.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and design-system contributors to ensure visibility of AI outputs.
• Prototype and evaluate adaptive, AI-generated interfaces as a product capability.
• Create playbooks and prompt libraries to enable the wider design org.

Conhecimentos

Design and code fluency

TypeScript

React

Figma

HTML/CSS

AI-native

Senior-level experience

Ferramentas

Figma

TypeScript

React

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the Role

This is a senior individual contributor role within the Product Design department. Most teams use AI as a faster way for humans to build products. At Deel, we want to go further: build the system that lets AI build the products, with humans defining the taste, the guardrails, and the standards it works within.

That system is your product. You design and build the substrate AI generates against: the Design Systems and component architecture, the generation and agent workflows, the quality gates that keep AI output production-ready, and the feedback loops that keep everything visible to the team. You stay hands-on as a designer throughout, because the fastest way to prove a generation system works is to design and ship real interfaces on top of it.

It is systems-first and craft-backed: you build the machine, and you use your own design ability to pressure-test it. You spend your time in Figma and in a code editor in roughly equal measure, you partner directly with design leadership to drive AI adoption across the whole design organisation, and you work as part of a cross-functional team alongside Engineering and Product rather than in isolation.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build the system that lets AI build products - Architect the Design Systems, tokens, and components as the substrate AI generates against. Design prompt libraries, patterns, and agent workflows that turn design intent into production-ready UI with minimal human assembly.
• Design hands-on to prove it - Stay a practicing designer. Explore concepts quickly, design real interfaces, and prototype in production front-end code so you are the first and toughest test of whether the system produces excellent, shippable work.
• Own quality, guardrails, and evals - Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI, design-to-code fidelity benchmarks, regression safeguards, and evaluation methods that keep AI output honest.
• Drive the AI workflow across the design org - Partner directly with design leadership to maintain, evolve, and roll out the AI-native workflow across the whole design organisation. This includes driving adoption, keeping standards current as tools change, and embedding the workflow across teams.
• Work cross-functionally - Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and design-system contributors. You complement engineering rather than replacing it, and you keep the system round-tripping to shared surfaces such as Figma so AI-accelerated output stays visible and open to feedback.
• Push into generative UI - Take AI beyond the build process and into the product itself. Prototype and evaluate adaptive, AI-generated interfaces as a product capability, and help shape where they belong on the roadmap.
• Level up the team - Turn what works into playbooks, prompt libraries, and enablement so the wider design org builds on the system rather than relying on you.

What You'll Bring

• The heart of this role: You move fluidly between design and code. You don't need to be the deepest specialist in either discipline—what matters is you can design something well, build it yourself, and use AI to move quickly between the two.
• Design - Real taste for layout, typography, interaction, motion; you care about polish.
• Code & prototype - Comfortable writing TypeScript/React (HTML, CSS, animation included). Prototype fast, moving between Figma and code to get from idea to working interface in hours rather than days.
• Systems thinking - Built or extended Design Systems others rely on.
• AI-native - Using AI design and coding tools in real work and keen to help shape new ones.
• Seniority - 7+ years in product design + front-end engineering in complex products; comfortable with ambiguity and setting standards others follow.

Compensation & Benefits

• $72,000 USD - $135,000 USD.
• Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission.
• Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.
• Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.
• We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.
• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• Optional flexible working office membership, with IWG.

About Deel

Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list— all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google. We are backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years.