Senior Design Engineer, Scalable Web Design System

General Motors; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to evolve and scale our enterprise design system for the web. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and platform teams to create accessible, performant, and reusable components powering consistent experiences across products.

You’ll extend the system to React and Angular, translate Figma designs into production-ready code, and contribute to documentation, standards, and AI-driven workflows for design tooling and token mapping.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or design field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years as a Design Engineer or Design Technologist.
• Experience building design systems or UI libraries with HTML, CSS, JS, and TypeScript.
• Solid front-end architecture and scalable CSS for enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of semantic HTML, WCAG, and ARIA accessibility standards.
• Experience with AI-enabled design systems or AI-driven UI workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a scalable design system using Web Components (Stencil).
• Extend the system to React and Angular consumers with wrappers and integration.
• Write semantic, accessible HTML with WCAG/ARIA, keyboard navigation, and screen reader support.
• Build modular, maintainable CSS for large-scale apps with performant, reusable components.
• Translate Figma designs into production-ready code in collaboration with designers.
• Contribute to design system documentation and coding standards.
• Integrate components into CI/CD pipelines and support unit, visual, and accessibility testing.
• Explore and integrate AI capabilities into design system workflows.
• Publish components, tokens, and usage guidelines in machine-readable formats with Storybook.

Skills

Design systems

HTML/CSS

JavaScript/TypeScript

Accessibility WCAG/ARIA

Web Components

AI in UI workflows

Education

Bachelor’s degree in technical/design field

Tools

Stencil

React

Angular

Storybook

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to evolve and scale our enterprise design system for the web. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, and platform teams to create accessible, performant, and reusable components powering consistent experiences across products.

You’ll extend the system to React and Angular, translate Figma designs into production-ready code, and contribute to documentation, standards, and AI-driven workflows for design tooling and token mapping.