Senior UX Engineer: AI-Driven Design Systems

Pinterest; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 156,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Pinterest is seeking a Design Technologist / UX Engineer to bridge design and engineering for world-class experiences for Pinners and advertisers. You’ll drive cross-platform design system initiatives, ensure design fidelity, and influence technical architecture with AI-enabled prototyping.

You’ll collaborate with design and product teams to ship scalable solutions, mentor peers, and advance accessibility and performance in daily work.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a design technologist, engineer, or UX engineer.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• Proven track-record of delivering highly reliable technical solutions that scale.
• Deep experience working in mobile native UI development (Android SDK, Kotlin, UIKit, Swift).
• Experience developing a design system or leading design system initiatives.
• Experience breaking down big challenges into smaller decisions framed as trade-offs (time vs. scope).
• Track record of delivering large, cross-functional projects across multiple organizations and being a champion of developer experience, performance and quality.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Basic awareness of accessibility principles with a commitment to further learning.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs.
• Strong track record of human-in-the-loop best practices through critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)

Responsibilities

• Contribute to strategic technical direction for our design systems’ cross platform libraries.
• Design solutions that address problems at both current and future scale.
• Work with designers, product managers, management, internal business partners, and other subject matter experts.
• Ensure a seamless connection between design and engineering by maintaining design/UX visions through code, applying technical architecture and data.
• Work within the design system and help evolve the system to meet the needs of our users; Contribute to the continuous improvement of design standards, guidelines, and reusable components.
• Mentor team members and participate actively in design and code reviews, team processes and decision making.
• Use AI to create, develop, and distribute high fidelity prototypes for product alignment and user testing.
• Build tooling that helps designers and engineers leverage AI capabilities in their daily workflows

Skills

Design technologist

UX engineer

Cross-functional collaboration

AI in workflow

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Android SDK

Kotlin

UIKit

Swift

Job description

Pinterest is seeking a Design Technologist / UX Engineer to bridge design and engineering for world-class experiences for Pinners and advertisers. You’ll drive cross-platform design system initiatives, ensure design fidelity, and influence technical architecture with AI-enabled prototyping.

You’ll collaborate with design and product teams to ship scalable solutions, mentor peers, and advance accessibility and performance in daily work.