Lead Design Engineer: AI-Driven Design Systems

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Remote work

Professional development

Equity opportunities

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Design Engineer based in the United States to shape the design system, components, and guidelines that power scalable digital products. You will bridge design and engineering, creating reusable tokens and patterns for both human teams and AI-powered workflows.

You will advance AI-assisted design while ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and high-quality interfaces, collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers to continuously improve the system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering.
• Portfolio or case studies showing design system or component library work.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills and ability to apply patterns.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• Experience using AI-assisted design tools and integrating AI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain core design system components and guidelines for AI-assisted design and code generation.
• Establish reusable components, design tokens, and interaction patterns for designers and AI tools.
• Ensure design system decisions translate into production code with quality and performance.
• Incorporate accessibility, responsive behavior, and performance considerations by default.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers to continuously improve the system.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

AI-assisted development

Collaboration

Education

Eight+ years of experience

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Figma Make

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Lead Design Engineer based in the United States to shape the design system, components, and guidelines that power scalable digital products. You will bridge design and engineering, creating reusable tokens and patterns for both human teams and AI-powered workflows.

You will advance AI-assisted design while ensuring accessibility, responsiveness, and high-quality interfaces, collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers to continuously improve the system.