Design Engineer – AI-Driven Frontend UI

Your mission nuwacom; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

nuwacom is building the next evolution of work with an AI-enabled, secure platform. We are seeking a Design Engineer who brings production-ready UI features to life using React and TypeScript, collaborating across Product Design, Design Engineering, and Engineering to ship high-quality interfaces.

You will blend design system rules with AI-assisted development, ensure UI quality in code, prototype new concepts, and maintain clean, accessible interfaces at scale.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional frontend development experience with a clear UI focus. You have implemented and shipped high-quality user interfaces yourself.
• Strong knowledge of React, TypeScript, and modern CSS, along with experience using Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui or comparable component libraries.
• Practical experience with automated testing using Vitest and Playwright. You cover components and key user flows with appropriate unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• A keen eye for UI quality. You notice when hierarchy, spacing, typography, or interactions feel off and can improve these details independently.
• Experience with design systems. You apply components and tokens consistently and know how to ensure their use in AI-assisted development workflows.
• A proven AI workflow. You use AI tools purposefully in development and can explain how you provide requirements, evaluate results, and turn generated output into production-ready code.
• Autonomy and speed of execution. You can work with requirements that are not yet fully defined, clarify open questions, and make pragmatic decisions. You feel comfortable in a fast-paced startup.
• Fluent English for collaboration within our international team.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production-ready UI. You translate concepts and prototypes into high-quality interfaces using React and TypeScript. You use existing components, tokens, and interaction patterns to move features swiftly through to release.
• Ensure UI quality across the Engineering team. You review features during development, identify inconsistencies in layout, typography, and interaction, and fix them directly in code or together with the developers responsible.
• Advance new concepts through prototyping. Together with Product Design, you build functional prototypes, assess technical feasibility, and refine user flows and UX/UI details directly in the implementation.
• Use AI purposefully through spec-driven development. You use Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, or comparable tools in your daily development workflow. You guide implementation with clear requirements, design system rules, and acceptance criteria. You independently review and refine generated code.
• Embed the design system in implementation. You ensure that AI-generated interfaces also meet our standards and coordinate any necessary extensions with Design Engineering. Responsiveness, accessibility, and performance are part of your commitment to quality.

Skills

Frontend development

React

TypeScript

CSS

Tailwind CSS

shadcn/ui

UI quality

Tools

Vitest

Playwright

Storybook

Job description

nuwacom is building the next evolution of work with an AI-enabled, secure platform. We are seeking a Design Engineer who brings production-ready UI features to life using React and TypeScript, collaborating across Product Design, Design Engineering, and Engineering to ship high-quality interfaces.

You will blend design system rules with AI-assisted development, ensure UI quality in code, prototype new concepts, and maintain clean, accessible interfaces at scale.