Design Engineer, Waypoint Design System & Figma-to-Code

Cohere; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch stipend

Health benefits

RRSP matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Cohere seeks a design engineer to own Waypoint, our design system, ensuring the Figma library stays in sync with production components and tokens. You’ll drive architecture, write clear docs, and partner with product designers and engineers to ship robust, scalable UI building blocks.

You’ll be at the intersection of design and code, championing a unified workflow that bridges Figma frames and npm packages, while shaping how the system evolves to serve AI-driven products.

Qualifications

• Own and evolve the Figma library for Waypoint: component structure, variants, properties, and documentation, so it stays a reliable source of truth for design teams.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components, contributing directly to our component packages alongside the design engineering team.
• Work across our token pipeline, keeping design tokens in Figma and their code representations (CSS custom properties, Tailwind config) tightly synced.
• Partner with product designers to translate new patterns into system components, and with product engineers to make sure those components are easy to adopt correctly.
• Help define and refine the workflows and tooling that connect Figma and code (sync scripts, plugins, documentation sites) rather than relying on manual handoff.
• Write clear documentation and usage guidance so the system scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Weigh in on system architecture decisions: when to add a new component versus extend an existing one, how to version and package changes, how to keep the system consistent as it grows.
• Help shape how Waypoint evolves to serve a third consumer beyond designers and engineers: the model itself. That means thinking about how components, tokens, and patterns get structured so they're legible to AI systems, not just to humans.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Figma library for Waypoint: component structure, variants, properties, and documentation, so it stays a reliable source of truth for design teams.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components, contributing directly to our component packages alongside the design engineering team.
• Work across our token pipeline, keeping design tokens in Figma and their code representations (CSS custom properties, Tailwind config) tightly synced.
• Partner with product designers to translate new patterns into system components, and with product engineers to make sure those components are easy to adopt correctly.
• Help define and refine the workflows and tooling that connect Figma and code (sync scripts, plugins, documentation sites) rather than relying on manual handoff.
• Write clear documentation and usage guidance so the system scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Weigh in on system architecture decisions: when to add a new component versus extend an existing one, how to version and package changes, how to keep the system consistent as it grows.
• Help shape how Waypoint evolves to serve a third consumer beyond designers and engineers: the model itself. That means thinking about how components, tokens, and patterns get structured so they're legible to AI systems, not just to humans.

Skills

Figma library

Design tokens

Documentation

Component design

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma

CSS variables

Tailwind

Job description

Cohere seeks a design engineer to own Waypoint, our design system, ensuring the Figma library stays in sync with production components and tokens. You’ll drive architecture, write clear docs, and partner with product designers and engineers to ship robust, scalable UI building blocks.

You’ll be at the intersection of design and code, championing a unified workflow that bridges Figma frames and npm packages, while shaping how the system evolves to serve AI-driven products.