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Design Engineer, III

GitHub· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$153.9k - $285.9kUNAVAILABLEPosted 4mo ago

About the role

Design Engineer III at GitHub focused on shaping the next generation of developer tools. Combines design, engineering, and product strategy to prototype, build, and refine experiences used by millions of developers. Works hands-on with design primitives, front-end technologies, and design systems in a collaborative, autonomous individual-contributor role.

Responsibilities

  • Front-End Craft & Adaptability: Deliver front-end experiences with a focus on quality and detail, adapting quickly to new technologies and approaches—even when all the answers aren’t clear.
  • Exploration & Prototyping: Rapidly explore and prototype interactive concepts, especially around emerging UX patterns and AI-ready design languages, moving fast to test ideas and learn what works. Experiment with design primitives and open source systems.
  • Systems & Architecture: Support evolving and scaling design systems, contribute to robust information architecture, and help advance open source initiatives.
  • Design Systems Integration: Integrate and use design system components to deliver product consistency and alignment with company standards.
  • Communication: Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-disciplinary teams throughout ideation, design, and development for inclusive and well-understood messaging.
  • Accessibility & Craft: Deliver accessible, high-quality visual and interaction designs from concept to completion, ensuring assets, flows, and animations support GitHub’s brand and principles.
  • Shaping: Defining great products and developer experiences with a point of view, where good defaults and what not to include is as intentional as essential as what makes it into the final solution.
  • Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision.
  • Progress and tempo: Prioritize progress and forward momentum, balancing design details with timely delivery.
  • Curiosity: Stay curious about AI and LLM capabilities to identify opportunities.
  • Design Quality: Bridge gaps between product, design, and engineering to build high-quality, scalable, and interactive components.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years experience in front-end engineering, development, or design
  • - OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Art, Computer Science, Human Factors Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, or related field AND 3+ years experience in frontend engineering, development, or design
  • - OR Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Art, Computer Science, Human Factors Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in frontend engineering or development
  • - OR equivalent experience.
  • Fluency with modern front-end technologies and design/prototyping tools like Figma; experience working directly in codebases and working with AI-powered design and development tools and workflows.
  • Hands-on engineering experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript) and design systems.

Skills

Required:Front-end engineering

Benefits

  • This section not explicitly enumerated in the provided description.
Last updated Jul 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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