Principal Design Engineer: AI-Driven UI Tooling

Yahoo Holdings Inc.

Omaha (NE)

Hybrid

USD 136,000 - 284,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401k match

Backup childcare

Education stipends

Job summary

Yahoo is seeking an experienced engineer-designer to join the Central Foundations team, shaping AI-assisted generation and tooling. You will implement core interactions, motion, and UI states with a high bar for craft, accessibility, and performance.

You’ll collaborate closely with product teams, critique design decisions, and contribute to a scalable design system while delivering production-quality React/TypeScript code in a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

8+ years shipping interactive tools with a strong UI focus.
Proficient in React and TypeScript in production environments.
Solid visual design skills with pixel-level attention to detail.
Deep understanding of motion, micro-interactions and feedback.
Experience moving from problem framing to polished UI and decisions.
Experience contributing to design systems for scalable interfaces.
Portfolio demonstrates live interactive web apps or design tools.

Responsibilities

Design & Engineering Execution: build core interactions, selection, panel layouts, keyboard navigation, and AI generation states.
Visual & Interaction Design: shape visual language, typography, motion, and states for a cohesive tool.
Interactive & Motion authoring: develop and preview motion behavior within the platform.
Production Delivery: ship production-quality code using React and TypeScript with CI workflows.
Customer-Centric Iteration: collaborate with product teams, turn feedback into features.
Quality & Standards: raise interaction quality, accessibility, and performance via reviews and prototypes.
Collaboration & Communication: bridge design and engineering, solicit and respond to feedback.