Design Systems Engineer – AI Tooling Architect

Design Better Podcast; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nubank’s Design Center of Excellence seeks a premier engineer to architect and scale design systems and agentic tooling. You’ll work directly with designers and researchers to define and build the infrastructure that unifies 30+ local repositories and 100+ AI-assisted solutions, ensuring scalable, observable, and impactful tooling for a 260-person design function.

You’ll own the technical roadmap, shape the architecture, and advocate for design-centric engineering across the organization,

Qualifications

• An outstanding, deeply experienced engineer with an engineering-first mindset.
• Track record architecting UX systems and design tooling at scale.
• Experience building agentic tools or AI-enabled design systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the systems design that the Design Center of Excellence runs on, increasingly agentic.
• Sit with designers and researchers, understand the need, and translate it into a scoped, buildable solution.
• Stand up or reuse infrastructure, write code, and ship it to the function.
• Instrument what you build with metrics and observability as part of the deliverable.
• Own the roadmap for CoE tooling: prioritize, sequence, and keep momentum without a PM.
• Be the technical voice in a design organization, making trade-offs legible to non-developers.

Job description

Nubank’s Design Center of Excellence seeks a premier engineer to architect and scale design systems and agentic tooling. You’ll work directly with designers and researchers to define and build the infrastructure that unifies 30+ local repositories and 100+ AI-assisted solutions, ensuring scalable, observable, and impactful tooling for a 260-person design function.

You’ll own the technical roadmap, shape the architecture, and advocate for design-centric engineering across the organization,