Senior Design Engineer — AI-Driven UI & Design System Lead

Comp-Ai; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Comp AI is hiring a Senior Design Engineer to own the bridge between product design and frontend engineering. In a hybrid role, you’ll craft user experiences and write production-ready React code that comes to life in GitHub.

You will be the founding architect of Comp AI’s design system, maintaining UI components, tokens, and interface logic for a fast-shipping team. You’ll bring 7+ years of experience, mastery of modern design tools, and production-grade React/TypeScript with AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in product design, frontend engineering, or a dedicated Design Engineer / UX Engineer role (preferably at a fast-growing B2B SaaS or developer‑tooling startup).
• Mastery of a modern design tool — Figma, Framer, Penpot, or whatever you do your best work in — including component systems, variants, and interactive prototyping.
• Strong proficiency in React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS/CSS Modules, and Tailwind CSS.
• Demonstrated use of AI tooling (coding agents, design/prototyping tools, LLM workflows) to move faster without lowering the quality bar.
• Confident managing branches, opening pull requests, resolving conflicts, and navigating GitHub codebases.
• Deep understanding of component-driven architecture, design tokens, responsive web layouts, and state management.

Responsibilities

• Own the Design System: Architect, scale, and maintain our foundational design system (components, tokens, styling architecture) in both design tooling and code.
• End-to-End Product Design: Craft seamless UX flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI screens, and interactive prototypes for complex AI-driven dashboards and workflows.
• Frontend Implementation: Translate your own designs into high-quality, responsive component code and commit changes directly to our GitHub repository.
• Developer Enablement: Establish crystal-clear documentation and interactive code specifications so full-stack and backend engineers can seamlessly implement product pages.
• Maintain Visual Consistency: Continuously audit our live platform to eliminate UI regressions and ensure pixel-perfect execution across the application.
• Raise the Team's Velocity: Bring AI into the design and build loop — prototyping, code generation, review, documentation — and share what works so the rest of the team ships faster too.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML/CSS

Tailwind CSS

Design Systems

UX Engineering

AI-assisted design

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Figma

Framer

Storybook

GitHub

Job description

Comp AI is hiring a Senior Design Engineer to own the bridge between product design and frontend engineering. In a hybrid role, you’ll craft user experiences and write production-ready React code that comes to life in GitHub.

You will be the founding architect of Comp AI’s design system, maintaining UI components, tokens, and interface logic for a fast-shipping team. You’ll bring 7+ years of experience, mastery of modern design tools, and production-grade React/TypeScript with AI-enabled