AI-Driven Design Systems Architect (Remote)

Matlen Silver; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Matlen Silver seeks a Principal Design Systems Engineer to lead the AI-enabled “one experience design” initiative while bridging UX design and software engineering. This contract role operates at enterprise scale, integrating Claude/LLM tooling and secure design-system governance.

You will partner with designers, engineers and product managers to define architecture, build AI-enabled components, and drive adoption across multiple teams, while navigating permissions and deployment constraints in

Qualifications

• Shipped Claude/LLM tooling to production (MCP servers, agentic workflows, prompt/context engineering).
• Strong SQL and data engineering.
• Full-stack coding with Python and/or TypeScript/React.
• Working UX/UI skills (Figma, front-end implementation).
• Delivered inside enterprise constraints (security review, permissions, deployment).

Responsibilities

• Define the technical architecture for a new, “one experience design” design system that unifies customer-facing and associate-facing software experiences.
• Provide technical recommendations and frameworks for design system governance for managing, communicating, and supporting the design system across the enterprise.
• Help define the change management approach and adoption metrics for scaling the design system across many ‘vertical’ application teams and ‘horizontal’ business groups.
• Design and build technical parts and pieces of the AI-enabled design system, potentially including: Claude plugins, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, and prompt/context engineering tools that designers use directly in their daily work.
• Drive the technical execution and architecture of the design system as a product: understand the problems it solves; define strategy, objectives, and measurements; describe how it should be built; test it; ship it; and help teams implement it.
• Partner with balanced teams (designers, engineers, and product managers) to pressure-test whether the design system actually solves their problems and meets their needs, and iterate based on real usage.
• Navigate infrastructure and enterprise constraints (permissions, security review, deployment) to get a working design system into people's hands, not just into a demo.
• Help build the documentation and training supporting layer around each part and piece of the design system so it's adoptable without you standing next to it.

Skills

Claude/LLM tooling shipped to prod

SQL & data engineering

Full-stack coding (Python/TypeScript/"

Job description

Matlen Silver seeks a Principal Design Systems Engineer to lead the AI-enabled “one experience design” initiative while bridging UX design and software engineering. This contract role operates at enterprise scale, integrating Claude/LLM tooling and secure design-system governance.

You will partner with designers, engineers and product managers to define architecture, build AI-enabled components, and drive adoption across multiple teams, while navigating permissions and deployment constraints in