Lead Design Engineer — AI-Driven Design Systems (Remote)

Wwshemi; United States; Remote; USD 137,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote-friendly culture

Professional development stipend

Health insurance

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build and scale our design systems across web and mobile. You will codify components, tokens, and guidelines to empower design and engineering teams while maintaining high quality and accessibility.

Your work will influence how quickly teams build, how products behave, and how customers interact with our AI-driven design tools, in a flexible remote environment across the United States.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering for web and mobile.
• Shipped design system or component library with portfolio/case studies.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops for AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure to prevent AI slop in customer-facing products.
• Ensure system decisions translate into clean code with shared ownership of quality and performance.
• Integrate accessibility, responsiveness, and performance by default in the system.
• Define contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed with integrity.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to incorporate feedback and usage data into future work.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with design and engineering teams.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles at scale across offices.

Skills

Design systems

Front-end engineering

UI/UX design

Design tokens

Accessibility

AI tools

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

CS or HCI degree

Portfolio of design system work

Tools

Figma Make

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build and scale our design systems across web and mobile. You will codify components, tokens, and guidelines to empower design and engineering teams while maintaining high quality and accessibility.

Your work will influence how quickly teams build, how products behave, and how customers interact with our AI-driven design tools, in a flexible remote environment across the United States.