Frontend Engineer, Design System & Shared UI Platform

Into Design Systems; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Perplexity is hiring a frontend engineer to build the design system used across Perplexity products, the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. The role focuses on developing component APIs for internal product teams, contributing to the token pipeline that keeps platforms visually consistent, and maintaining interaction quality and accessibility.

You will design and implement core primitives, collaborate with design to translate Figma systems

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production frontend with a design system or shared UI platform.
• Strong React, TypeScript, and CSS skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core primitives with coherent APIs as consumers multiply.
• Work on the design-token pipeline across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
• Collaborate with design to translate Figma systems into typed, documented components.
• Migrate product surfaces to shared primitives without breaking them.
• Build accessible components by default (keyboard, focus, contrast, screen readers).
• Support consuming teams with documentation, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation.

Skills

React

TypeScript

CSS

Accessibility

Design system

Job description

Perplexity is hiring a frontend engineer to build the design system used across Perplexity products, the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. The role focuses on developing component APIs for internal product teams, contributing to the token pipeline that keeps platforms visually consistent, and maintaining interaction quality and accessibility.

You will design and implement core primitives, collaborate with design to translate Figma systems