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Staff Design Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Own Stylus, the company's design system, ensuring quality across web, desktop, and browser extension products while bridging design and frontend engineering.

Role type

Staff Design Engineer (Design System & Frontend)

Builds

Design system components, primitives, tokens, and frontend tooling for web and desktop applications.

Domain

SaaS / Product Design / Frontend Engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Frontend development (8+ years), CSS, DOM, browser rendering, Design system ownership, React, TypeScript, Prototyping, Accessibility, AI tool usage

Preferred skills

Web components, Multi-framework experience, Desktop apps, Browser extensions, Generative UI

Technologies

React, TypeScript, Figma, Cursor, Claude Code

Responsibilities

Own the Stylus roadmap and governance, build hard components balancing aesthetics and performance, prototype in code and validate with users, migrate legacy components, align design tokens with code, explore AI-ready UX patterns, mentor engineers on design principles.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic ownership

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