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

Samsara; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 137,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote-friendly

Development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build scalable design systems and AI-assisted UI components for web and mobile. You’ll codify principles, drive tokens, and shape how teams ship high-quality experiences. This remote US-role offers growth, collaboration, and a path to impact across critical industries.

You’ll work with design and engineering to ensure accessibility, performance, and maintainability while upholding Samsara’s long-term vision and customer focus.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years in design engineering, design systems, or front-end design.
• Shipped design systems or component libraries with a portfolio or code samples.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with solid judgment on patterns.

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.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed and integrity.
• Meet with designers and engineers to incorporate usage data and feedback.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with design and engineering teams.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles at scale across locations.

Skills

UX/UI design

Design systems

Web & mobile

Portfolio ready

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/HCI

Tools

Figma

Cursor AI

Claude Code

Figma Make

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build scalable design systems and AI-assisted UI components for web and mobile. You’ll codify principles, drive tokens, and shape how teams ship high-quality experiences. This remote US-role offers growth, collaboration, and a path to impact across critical industries.

You’ll work with design and engineering to ensure accessibility, performance, and maintainability while upholding Samsara’s long-term vision and customer focus.