Senior Design Technologist: Design Systems & AI Tools

Public Service Division; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve its design system and AI tooling. You will help designers and engineers create consistent, accessible products and ensure AI outputs follow the system.

The role spans design system components, tokens, theming, and documentation, plus building AI tools, governance workflows, and adoption strategies to scale across projects. Strong collaboration with design and engineering teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design, UI design, design engineering or a related discipline, with 2+ years working on a design system.
• A portfolio showing design system work: components, tokens, documentation, and the effect on the teams who use them.
• Strong grasp of component architecture, design tokens, variants and theming in Figma.
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG AA, and how to build them into components.
• Experience building AI tools for design work, such as Figma plugins, custom agents, skills or prompt templates.
• Experience making design system content usable by AI tools, such as structured documentation or MCP servers.
• Ability to write scripts with the Figma API, JavaScript or similar to automate design tasks.
• Comfortable working in GitHub with engineers.
• Clear writing for documentation and guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain components, tokens, theming and documentation.
• Ensure accessibility meets WCAG AA.
• Collaborate with front-end engineers to align design and code.
• Build AI tools like Figma plugins and tokens; expose data via MCP.
• Write scripts to automate design system tasks and documentation.
• Test new AI tools and share results with the design team.
• Support product designers and engineers with guidance and governance.
• Run a contribution model for teams to propose new components.
• Track adoption and report on system impact.

Skills

Design systems

Figma

JavaScript

GitHub

WCAG AA

AI tooling

Documentation

Storybook

Code Connect

Figma API

Tools

Code Connect

Storybook

Figma

MCP servers

GitHub

Job description

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) is seeking a Senior Design Technologist to design, build and evolve its design system and AI tooling. You will help designers and engineers create consistent, accessible products and ensure AI outputs follow the system.

The role spans design system components, tokens, theming, and documentation, plus building AI tools, governance workflows, and adoption strategies to scale across projects. Strong collaboration with design and engineering teams is essential.