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Senior Design Engineer

GitHub· Design
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$177.2k - $329.2kUNAVAILABLEPosted 2mo ago

About the role

Design Engineer role at GitHub focused on shaping the next generation of developer tools through front-end craft, design systems, and AI-enabled workflows. Combines design, engineering, and product strategy with autonomous individual contribution.

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 what makes it into the final solution.
  • Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that reflect GitHub’s brand vision.
  • Progress and tempo: Prioritize progress over perfection to keep decisions moving forward.
  • Curiosity: Stay curious about AI/LLM capabilities to identify opportunities.
  • Design Quality: Collaborate to build high-quality, scalable, interactive components.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Art, Computer Science, Human Factors Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, or related field AND 5+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Master’s Degree in related field AND 3+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Doctorate in related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in front-end 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 engineeringReactHTML/CSS/JavaScript/TypeScriptFigmaDesign systems

Benefits

  • Compensation range provided: USD $177,200.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr (base salary) and eligibility for benefits, annual bonus, stock, and potential sales incentives based on role and impact.
Last updated Aug 6, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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