Remote Frontend Design Engineer for AI Platforms

your Jared; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Chess.com is seeking a design engineer to own the interfaces of Engage-o-tron, our growth platform; GNS, our AI-native knowledge and agent platform; and the internal admin tools used daily by teams.

Design, code, and ship end-to-end with no handoff. You’ll blend strong UI/UX taste with technical front-end craft, contribute to design systems, prototype ideas, and review code in a fully remote setting.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience fluency prompting and building AI-native development tools like Claude Code and Cursor as part of their daily workflow.
• Cares deeply about polish. Defensible, articulate taste in typography, spacing, layout, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density.
• Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (TypeScript, Vue, React or equivalent), with real experience building and owning a design system in code.
• Contributed to open source UI libraries or design resources.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team.
• Sense of ownership and responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Design compelling, clear UI/UX and produce high-quality mocks that demonstrate strong product taste.
• Turn design mocks (yours or others') into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontends using modern web tech.
• Iterate on existing interfaces by improving layout, interaction quality, motion, and design consistency.
• Work closely with engineers, partners, and stakeholders. You'll support the design and implementation of features end-to-end.
• Rapidly prototype and "vibe code" to explore ideas, gather feedback, and iterate quickly.
• Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and patterns that raise the bar for frontend quality
• You will own and evolve the design system: the components, tokens, and patterns that let everyone ship UI fast
• You will use Cursor and Claude to build technologies that are AI-first
• You will prototype your own ideas and ship production polish end to end
• You will design the interface layer for AI-native workflows: streaming, long-running agent runs, tool-calling surfaces
• You will code! A lot!
• You will do code reviews

Skills

TypeScript

Vue

React

Design system in code

AI tooling

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

Chess.com is seeking a design engineer to own the interfaces of Engage-o-tron, our growth platform; GNS, our AI-native knowledge and agent platform; and the internal admin tools used daily by teams.

Design, code, and ship end-to-end with no handoff. You’ll blend strong UI/UX taste with technical front-end craft, contribute to design systems, prototype ideas, and review code in a fully remote setting.