Design Systems Engineer — AI-Driven UI

WRITER; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO & holidays

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Parental leave

Fertility and family planning support

Galleri cancer screening

Job summary

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own and evolve the Writer Design System (WDS). You will work with designers, PMs, and engineers to craft production-ready UI components and surfaces, ensuring accessibility, consistency, and brand fidelity across the product.

You’ll shape the design-to-code workflow, leverage modern animation tooling, and help scale the design system for a global, hybrid workforce. Compensation ranges are aligned with experience and scope.

Qualifications

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React.
• Fluency in Figma at expert level with auto-layout, variants, variables.
• Experience driving adoption of a design system across an org.
• Experience with AI product surfaces and dynamic UI rendering.

Responsibilities

• Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain.
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features.
• Polish design-led work with attention to accessibility and brand moments.
• Architect new primitives and extend the system’s core components.
• Ensure documentation, examples, and libraries stay in sync (Figma, Markdown, Storybook).
• Collaborate with designers, PMs, and engineers to measure WDS adoption.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Design systems

Figma expert

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Portfolio

AI product surfaces

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Job description

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own and evolve the Writer Design System (WDS). You will work with designers, PMs, and engineers to craft production-ready UI components and surfaces, ensuring accessibility, consistency, and brand fidelity across the product.

You’ll shape the design-to-code workflow, leverage modern animation tooling, and help scale the design system for a global, hybrid workforce. Compensation ranges are aligned with experience and scope.