Senior Design System Engineer - Web Components & AI

General Motors Corporation; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

General Motors is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to evolve and scale a global design system for the web. You will craft reusable, accessible components, translate Figma to production code, and publish tokens and guidelines for AI-assisted workflows.

You will work with designers and platform teams to ensure performance, accessibility, and scalability across products, with the opportunity to contribute to Storybook-based documentation and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or design related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a professional Design Engineer or Design Technologist.
• Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries.
• Strong experience with modern HTML, CSS architecture, vanilla JavaScript, and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of front-end architecture and scaling CSS in enterprise environments.
• Deep knowledge of semantic HTML, WCAG, and ARIA accessibility standards.
• Experience with progressive enhancement and performance optimization.
• Experience with design tokens, Style Dictionary, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience with AI-enabled design systems or AI-assisted workflows.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a scalable design system authored in Stencil and distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components.
• Extend the system to React and Angular consumers through framework wrappers and integration support.
• Write semantic, accessible HTML aligned with WCAG and ARIA, including keyboard navigation and screen reader support.
• Build modular, maintainable CSS for large-scale applications with emphasis on performance and accessibility.
• Translate Figma designs into production-ready code in collaboration with designers.
• Contribute to design system documentation and coding standards to ensure long-term consistency.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate components into CI/CD pipelines and support testing (unit, visual regression, accessibility).
• Explore and integrate AI capabilities into design system workflows and token mapping.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Web Components

Stencil

React

Angular

ARIA accessibility

WCAG

AI-enabled design systems

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Style Dictionary

Storybook

Jest

Playwright

Job description

General Motors is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to evolve and scale a global design system for the web. You will craft reusable, accessible components, translate Figma to production code, and publish tokens and guidelines for AI-assisted workflows.

You will work with designers and platform teams to ensure performance, accessibility, and scalability across products, with the opportunity to contribute to Storybook-based documentation and CI/CD integration.