Design Engineer — AI-Driven UI & Design System

Design Better Podcast; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

401k plan

Home office stipend

Education stipend

Wellbeing stipend

Lunch provided

Job summary

Glean is seeking a Design Engineer to join our core product engineering team. You'll sit at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering, owning the craft and polish of the Glean experience end to end.

This role includes building an AI-forward design system that encodes our design language for engineers and coding agents. You'll partner closely with our design team while reporting into engineering, delivering polished UI across web, desktop, and mobile.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product design and frontend engineering.
• Expert in modern web UI: TypeScript, React, CSS, with strong motion and accessibility.
• Experience building or maintaining a design system at scale.
• Excited about AI-assisted development and coding agents.
• Strong portfolio showing exceptional visual and interaction craft.
• Self-directed and proactive in polishing gaps without a spec.

Responsibilities

• Design polished, high-craft product experiences across web, desktop, and mobile apps.
• Evolve Glean's design system: components, tokens, governance, and adoption.
• Make our design system AI-ready with rules, linting, and guidelines for coding agents.
• Build a product design skill for coding agents to scale quality.
• Set the bar for frontend craft through prototypes, code reviews, and collaboration.
• Prototype interaction and motion concepts to resolve design questions in code.

Skills

Product design

Frontend engineering

TypeScript

React

CSS

Accessible design

AI-assisted development

Tools

Design system tooling

Job description

Glean is seeking a Design Engineer to join our core product engineering team. You'll sit at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering, owning the craft and polish of the Glean experience end to end.

This role includes building an AI-forward design system that encodes our design language for engineers and coding agents. You'll partner closely with our design team while reporting into engineering, delivering polished UI across web, desktop, and mobile.