Design Engineer — AI-Powered DevTools UI

CodeRabbit; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

CodeRabbit in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Design Engineer who blends design and engineering to ship AI-powered developer tools across IDEs, Git platforms, the CLI, and the web. You will turn concepts into production UI, build design systems, and push products from 90% to 100% polish.

You will collaborate with design, engineering, and AI teams to craft pixel-perfect experiences, craft data visualizations, and shape interactions native to AI-driven workflows.

Qualifications

• Equally fluent in Figma and your editor.
• Strong front-end engineering (TypeScript, React, CSS, animation).
• 2-5+ years of design engineering, front-end, or product design experience.
• Portfolio or shipped work showing engineering rigor and visual craft.
• Experience building design systems and component libraries.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality UI and polished components.
• Prototype AI experiences and real-time interactions quickly.
• Bridge design and engineering with pixel-perfect code.
• Own UI execution quality across the product with smooth motion.
• Build and maintain a reusable design system spanning platforms.
• Create clear, performant data visualizations for insights.
• Stay close to AI models and define native interactions for AI tools.

Skills

Front-end engineering

UI design collaboration

AI-native workflows

Design systems knowledge

Tools

TypeScript

React

CSS

Figma

Animation libraries

Job description

CodeRabbit in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Design Engineer who blends design and engineering to ship AI-powered developer tools across IDEs, Git platforms, the CLI, and the web. You will turn concepts into production UI, build design systems, and push products from 90% to 100% polish.

You will collaborate with design, engineering, and AI teams to craft pixel-perfect experiences, craft data visualizations, and shape interactions native to AI-driven workflows.