Senior Frontend Engineer - Design Systems & AI UI

Applied Intuition; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intuition is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on frontend engineering with deep design system experience. You will set how teams build, share, and ship UI across products, enabling fast, consistent libraries and tools.

You'll mentor engineers, own architecture from design to production, and shape AI-driven, dynamic interfaces while maintaining code quality and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6+ years of professional frontend experience with modern TypeScript and component-based frameworks such as React.
• Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and driving adoption of a design system or shared component library.
• Ability to carry out design system work independently and end to end, including API design, tokens, theming, documentation, release, and consumer support.
• Experience with frontend build, packaging, and distribution tooling for shared libraries.
• Significant contributions to design documents.
• Experience mentoring software engineers.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, and comfort working with cross-functional users and teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, evolution, and adoption of our design system and shared component libraries, working independently from design through delivery.
• Create standardized tooling, templates, and build and distribution workflows that let teams and agents create, package, and ship UI libraries consistently, with less duplicated effort.
• Partner with product engineering teams across the company to understand their frontend needs, gather feedback, and turn it into reusable, well-documented solutions.
• Collaborate closely with product designers and system designers to create flexible, extensible UI tooling and solutions.
• Design frontend foundations that scale, including theming, accessibility, performance, versioning, testing, and documentation practices.
• Explore and build frameworks for dynamic, AI-assisted interfaces, and help set the standards that keep them reliable and consistent.
• Write and contribute significantly to design documents, and drive technical decisions through to alignment.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for frontend quality and best practices.

Skills

Frontend architecture

React

TypeScript

Design systems

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

TypeScript

React

Job description

Applied Intuition is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on frontend engineering with deep design system experience. You will set how teams build, share, and ship UI across products, enabling fast, consistent libraries and tools.

You'll mentor engineers, own architecture from design to production, and shape AI-driven, dynamic interfaces while maintaining code quality and cross-team collaboration.