Principal Design Systems Engineer

Matlen Silver; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

Matlen Silver seeks a Principal Design Systems Engineer to lead the AI-enabled “one experience design” initiative while bridging UX design and software engineering. This contract role operates at enterprise scale, integrating Claude/LLM tooling and secure design-system governance.

You will partner with designers, engineers and product managers to define architecture, build AI-enabled components, and drive adoption across multiple teams, while navigating permissions and deployment constraints in

Qualifications

• Shipped Claude/LLM tooling to production (MCP servers, agentic workflows, prompt/context engineering).
• Strong SQL and data engineering.
• Full-stack coding with Python and/or TypeScript/React.
• Working UX/UI skills (Figma, front-end implementation).
• Delivered inside enterprise constraints (security review, permissions, deployment).

Responsibilities

• Define the technical architecture for a new, “one experience design” design system that unifies customer-facing and associate-facing software experiences.
• Provide technical recommendations and frameworks for design system governance for managing, communicating, and supporting the design system across the enterprise.
• Help define the change management approach and adoption metrics for scaling the design system across many ‘vertical’ application teams and ‘horizontal’ business groups.
• Design and build technical parts and pieces of the AI-enabled design system, potentially including: Claude plugins, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, and prompt/context engineering tools that designers use directly in their daily work.
• Drive the technical execution and architecture of the design system as a product: understand the problems it solves; define strategy, objectives, and measurements; describe how it should be built; test it; ship it; and help teams implement it.
• Partner with balanced teams (designers, engineers, and product managers) to pressure-test whether the design system actually solves their problems and meets their needs, and iterate based on real usage.
• Navigate infrastructure and enterprise constraints (permissions, security review, deployment) to get a working design system into people's hands, not just into a demo.
• Help build the documentation and training supporting layer around each part and piece of the design system so it's adoptable without you standing next to it.

Skills

Claude/LLM tooling shipped to prod

SQL & data engineering

Full-stack coding (Python/TypeScript/"

Job description

Position Title:Software Engineering & Advanced Tech - Principal Design Systems Engineer

Location: Vancouver, WA but open to remote candidates

Duration: 12 Months (Possible Extension/Conversion)/ No C2C

***Due to client requirements this role is only open to USC OR GC candidates***

Must have:

• Shipped Claude/LLM tooling to production (MCP servers, agentic workflows, prompt/context engineering)
• Strong SQL and data engineering
• Full-stack coding (Python and/or TypeScript/React)
• Working UX/UI skills (Figma, front-end implementation)
• Delivered inside enterprise constraints (security review, permissions, deployment)

Description

The contract Principal Design Systems Engineer will operate at the intersection of UX design, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. The contractor will help define the technical architecture for a new, AI-enabled "one experience design" system that unifies customer-facing and associate-facing software experiences. This is a hands-on architectural role requiring fluency in both design principles and advanced engineering, specifically involving AI tool integration.

Assignment Tasks

• Help define the technical architecture for a new, “one experience design” design system that unifies customer-facing and associate-facing software experiences.
• Provide technical recommendations and frameworks for design system governance for managing, communicating, and supporting the design system across the enterprise.
• Help define the change management approach and adoption metrics for scaling the design system across many ‘vertical’ application teams and ‘horizontal’ business groups.
• Design and build technical parts and pieces of the AI-enabled design system, potentially including: Claude plugins, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, and prompt/context engineering tools that designers use directly in their daily work.
• Drive the technical execution and architecture of the design system as a product: understand the problems it solves; define strategy, objectives, and measurements; describe how it should be built; test it; ship it; and help teams implement it.
• Partner with balanced teams (designers, engineers, and product managers) to pressure-test whether the design system actually solves their problems and meets their needs, and iterate based on real usage.
• Navigate infrastructure and enterprise constraints (permissions, security review, deployment) to get a working design system into people's hands, not just into a demo.
• Help build the documentation and training supporting layer around each part and piece of the design system so it's adoptable without you standing next to it.

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [e-mail] // 908-393-8600

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)