Lead Design Engineer - AI Systems & Design Tech (Remote)

Samsara Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 137,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote model

Professional development stipend

Health and parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build and scale the design system powering web and mobile interfaces. You will define components, tokens, and guidelines, and work across design and code to ship high-quality UI.

You will codify design principles and ensure accessibility and performance by default. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles, advocate for user-centered design, and leverage AI tools to enhance the design system.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering for web and mobile apps.
• Shipped design systems or component libraries with portfolio or code samples explaining decisions and adoption.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with good judgment on patterns vs invention.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools in regular practice and ability to integrate them with a design system.
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

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.
• Ensure system decisions translate into code with shared ownership of quality and performance.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed with integrity.
• Collaborate with designers and engineers to gather feedback and iterate.

Skills

Design systems

UX/UI design

Front-end engineering

Accessibility standards

AI tooling proficiency

Portfolio-driven

Tools

Figma Make

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Samsara is seeking a Lead Design Engineer to build and scale the design system powering web and mobile interfaces. You will define components, tokens, and guidelines, and work across design and code to ship high-quality UI.

You will codify design principles and ensure accessibility and performance by default. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles, advocate for user-centered design, and leverage AI tools to enhance the design system.