Design Systems Engineer for AI-Powered UI

WRITER; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 129.000 - 234.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Generous PTO

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Fertility support

Galleri cancer screening

HSA options

Annual stipends

Off-sites & team events

Stock options & 401k

Zusammenfassung

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System, ensuring production-ready UI components and surfaces across human and AI use. You’ll collaborate with design, PM, and engineering to ship polished, accessible UI, shaping the system’s technical direction and documentation.

A strong craft focus with cross‑team influence is essential. This hybrid role supports multiple hubs, including San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, and London, reporting to the Director of

Qualifikationen

• 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React, with a track record of owning a system, platform, or surface end‑to‑end rather than individual features.
• Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow‑through, interruptibility, and perceived performance.
• Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto‑layout, variants, variables, and code connect — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer‑motion, gsap, and lottie for web‑based animation.
• A demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems‑level work and not just feature work.
• Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org, with a track record of influencing technical or design direction beyond your immediate team.
• Experience with AI product surfaces — tool‑call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering — and comfort navigating ambiguous, cross‑team problems with good judgment about when to loop others in.
• A genuine commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own

Aufgaben

• Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it
• Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship
• Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive
• Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
• Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component
• Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org‑wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization
• Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

Kenntnisse

TypeScript

React

Design system

Animation

Figma

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

System ownership

AI surfaces

Tools

Framer Motion

GSAP

Lottie

Storybook

GitHub

Jobbeschreibung

WRITER is seeking a Design Engineer to own the Writer Design System, ensuring production-ready UI components and surfaces across human and AI use. You’ll collaborate with design, PM, and engineering to ship polished, accessible UI, shaping the system’s technical direction and documentation.

A strong craft focus with cross‑team influence is essential. This hybrid role supports multiple hubs, including San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, New York City, Seattle, and London, reporting to the Director of