Principal Design Engineer: AI UI & Tooling Architect

Yahoo Holdings Inc.

Champaign (IL)

Hybrid

USD 136,000 - 284,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid work options

Healthcare

401k

Education stipends

Job summary

Yahoo Holdings Inc. is seeking an experienced engineer to design and build the tool’s core interactions for an AI-assisted UI platform, emphasizing React, TypeScript, accessibility, and production-quality delivery.

You’ll work across design and engineering, shaping visual language, motion, and component states, while producing clean code, robust tests, and scalable design system contributions. This role offers a flexible hybrid schedule and opportunities to influence how internal tools feel

Qualifications

8+ years of experience shipping interactive tools.
Strong experience building interactive UI with React and TypeScript in production.
Strong typography, layout, spacing, and hierarchy fundamentals.
Deep understanding of motion, micro-interactions and visual feedback.
Ability to explain reasoning and tradeoffs from problem framing to UI.
Experience with design systems to build scalable interfaces.
Portfolio required showing live interactive web applications.

Responsibilities

Design and build core interactions including selection systems and keyboard navigation.
Shape visual language: layout, typography, motion, and component states.
Own interactive and motion authoring within the platform.
Ship production-quality code using React and TypeScript with CI workflows.
Collaborate with product teams to turn user feedback into features.
Raise quality and accessibility standards across the engineering org.
Bridge design and engineering, surfacing problems and proposing solutions.