Design Engineer - Remote, AI-First Craft & Design Systems

WorkOS; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k matching

Competitive Equity

Healthcare, dental and vision coverage

FSA, ST/LT Disability, Voluntary Life

Carrot fertility benefits

20 days paid vacation + 10 holidays +

unlimited sick leave

12 weeks fully paid parental leave

Fitness stipend

Wellness stipend

Commuter benefits for hybrid employees

Job summary

WorkOS is hiring a Design Engineer who sits at the intersection of design and code, collaborating directly with the Product Design team. You’ll prototype, build, and polish experiences across Dashboard, Admin Portal, AuthKit, Atlas, and more, shaping the design system and its accessibility.

You’ll ship production-ready components and contribute to cross-functional product work. You’ll work with TypeScript, React, and Radix, with a strong emphasis on craft, performance, and customer validation.

Qualifications

• You have an eye for design details, care deeply about craft, and have a history of shipping polished products.
• You can articulate why you made a design decision, not just what you made. You think through alternatives, weigh tradeoffs, and consider how your choices affect the entire product.
• You account for real-world complexity — edge cases, error and empty states, accessibility, and technical constraints — without letting process slow you down. You ship, learn, and iterate.
• You’re equally comfortable in code as you are in Figma/Paper and work across tools to refine your explorations, while also being excited to explore new tools and workflows and share what you learn with the team.
• You work AI-first and have refined how you do it, are able to achieve high-quality output, and share your workflows with others
• You spot design gaps across the product and fix them without waiting to be asked. You default to showing work early, sharing prototypes in the open, and pulling in others to get to the right solution faster.
• Experience working on small teams in high-agency, fast-paced environments.
• Bonus: Experience with our stack of TypeScript, React, and Radix
• Bonus: Experience with developer tools, enterprise software, or other technical products

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality components and interactions across WorkOS products
• Prototype concepts, build new products, and experiment with new interaction patterns
• Raise the quality of WorkDS, our design system, by improving performance, state, accessibility, and interaction behaviour
• Work alongside product teams to test your ideas with customers directly and make sure what ships is right
• Work in the open, sharing work in progress early, pulling others in to get to the right answer faster
• Improve how the company builds, through design system contributions and agent instructions

Skills

Design craft

Design decisions

Accessibility

Edge cases

Figma

AI-first

Team collaboration

Tools

TypeScript

React

Radix

Job description

WorkOS is hiring a Design Engineer who sits at the intersection of design and code, collaborating directly with the Product Design team. You’ll prototype, build, and polish experiences across Dashboard, Admin Portal, AuthKit, Atlas, and more, shaping the design system and its accessibility.

You’ll ship production-ready components and contribute to cross-functional product work. You’ll work with TypeScript, React, and Radix, with a strong emphasis on craft, performance, and customer validation.