Design Systems Engineer: AI Tools & Figma Expert

Into Design Systems; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Housing & Development Board (HDB) is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve its design system and AI tools surrounding it. You will help designers and engineers create consistent, accessible products faster while ensuring AI outputs stay on the system.

You'll work in Figma, in code repos and with designers to translate workflows into robust components, tokens and documentation. The role combines design craft with engineering collaboration and AI tooling to scale design

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design or design engineering, with design system work.
• Portfolio showing design system components, tokens and docs.
• Strong understanding of components, tokens, theming in Figma.
• Experience building AI tools for design work.
• Ability to write scripts with Figma API/JavaScript to automate tasks.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers in GitHub.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain components, tokens, and theming.
• Ensure accessibility per WCAG AA in all components.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to align design and code.
• Develop AI tools for design throughput and staying on-system.
• Document structure for machine-readable design system data.
• Automate design tasks with scripts and audits.
• Support designers and engineers through reviews and guidance.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

Accessibility

AI tooling

GitHub

JavaScript

Tools

Figma

Storybook

Code Connect

GitHub

JavaScript

Job description

Housing & Development Board (HDB) is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve its design system and AI tools surrounding it. You will help designers and engineers create consistent, accessible products faster while ensuring AI outputs stay on the system.

You'll work in Figma, in code repos and with designers to translate workflows into robust components, tokens and documentation. The role combines design craft with engineering collaboration and AI tooling to scale design