Remote Lead Design Engineer: AI UI & Design Systems

Samsara; Jersey City (NJ); Remote; USD 137,000 - 231,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Professional development

Health benefits

Parental leave

RSU grant

Job summary

Samsara, a leading IoT and connected operations company, is hiring a Lead Design Engineer to build scalable design systems for web and mobile. You will define components, tokens, and guidelines and work across design and code to ship high-quality UI.

This remote role is open to candidates residing in the US. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own design system quality, accessibility, and performance, and help Samsara grow while delivering real-world impact.

Qualifications

• Shipped design system or component library work with portfolio or code samples.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills with judicious pattern use.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools in regular practice with work you can attribute and integrate into a design system.
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and PMs 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.
• Make sure system decisions translate into code with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability.
• Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
• Set contribution, governance, and deprecation models balancing speed with system integrity.
• Meet regularly with designers and engineers to incorporate feedback and usage data.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with the wider design and engineering teams.
• Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally.

Skills

Design systems

UX/UI design

Front-end engineering

Web and mobile

Education

Computer Science

HCI Design

Tools

Figma

Cursor

Claude Code

Job description

Samsara, a leading IoT and connected operations company, is hiring a Lead Design Engineer to build scalable design systems for web and mobile. You will define components, tokens, and guidelines and work across design and code to ship high-quality UI.

This remote role is open to candidates residing in the US. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, own design system quality, accessibility, and performance, and help Samsara grow while delivering real-world impact.