Lead Design Engineer, AI Design Systems (Remote)

Samsara Inc.; New York (NY); Remote; USD 137,000 - 231,000; Full time

Job summary

Samsara Inc. seeks a Lead Design Engineer to build systems that power our product and scale design impact across web and mobile. You’ll define components, tokens, and guidelines for designers and engineers to ship high-quality UI with AI-assisted design tools.

You’ll work across design and code, shape the design system, ensure accessibility by default, and mentor teams while delivering fast, reliable experiences for customers in a remote-first environment in the US.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, or front-end engineering.
• Shipped design system or component library with a portfolio, case studies, or code samples.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools used in regular practice and connected to a design system, with demonstrable outputs.

Responsibilities

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure, preventing AI slop from reaching customers.
• Make sure system decisions translate into code with shared ownership of quality and performance.

Skills

Design engineering

Design systems

UI/UX design

Interaction design

Visual design

AI tools in practice

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Figma Make

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Samsara Inc. seeks a Lead Design Engineer to build systems that power our product and scale design impact across web and mobile. You’ll define components, tokens, and guidelines for designers and engineers to ship high-quality UI with AI-assisted design tools.

You’ll work across design and code, shape the design system, ensure accessibility by default, and mentor teams while delivering fast, reliable experiences for customers in a remote-first environment in the US.