Frontend Design System Engineer - Tokens & Cross-Platform

Perplexity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 220,000 - 405,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is seeking a frontend engineer to build the design system that underpins all Perplexity products. You will create a component library that spans web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, establishing primitives, tokens, and interaction patterns for product teams to rely on.

You will work with design to translate Figma systems into typed, documented components, improve accessibility, and ensure visual consistency across platforms while supporting multiple consuming surfaces with robust

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production frontend work
• Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus
• Interest in building reusable components
• Strong React and TypeScript, and CSS
• Working accessibility knowledge (WCAG, ARIA patterns)
• Comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language

Responsibilities

• Design and build core primitives - overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback - with coherent APIs
• Work across the design-token pipeline - authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows
• Partner directly with design to translate Figma systems into typed, documented components
• Migrate product surfaces onto shared primitives without breaking them
• Build accessible components by default with keyboard focus and screen readers
• Support consuming teams through docs, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation

Skills

Frontend development

Design system

Accessibility knowledge

Collaboration with design

Tools

React

TypeScript

CSS

Design Tokens

Job description

Perplexity is seeking a frontend engineer to build the design system that underpins all Perplexity products. You will create a component library that spans web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows, establishing primitives, tokens, and interaction patterns for product teams to rely on.

You will work with design to translate Figma systems into typed, documented components, improve accessibility, and ensure visual consistency across platforms while supporting multiple consuming surfaces with robust