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Design engineer (US)

WRITER· EPD
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Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Chicago, IL), Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Austin, TX)$143k - $234k + equityFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Design engineers own the Writer Design System (WDS), ensuring a complete and trustworthy core UI library used by humans and AI agents. The role focuses on building and maintaining WDS, shaping product surfaces, and establishing standards for the EPD organization.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Writer Design System (WDS) as your primary domain — agentify and maintain it, ensuring it's optimized for both humans and AI agents building with it
  • Design and build production-quality UI components and features, owning surfaces from sketch to ship
  • Ship design-led work that wouldn't survive an engineering backlog — polish passes, micro-interactions, and brand moments that make the product feel alive
  • Architect new primitives and extend the system's core components, shaping its technical direction while keeping documentation, examples, and libraries in sync across Figma, .md skills, and Storybook
  • Uphold the bar for front-end craft across accessibility, motion feel, consistency, and quality, ensuring accessibility is baked into every design system component
  • Help shape the design-to-code workflow, researching the latest tools and practices to unlock org-wide productivity and democratize workflows across the EPD organization
  • Partner with designers, PMs, and engineering leads to measure WDS adoption, close gaps, and make sure shipped features meet design system standards

Qualifications

  • 4–8+ years building production frontends with TypeScript and React, with a track record of owning a system, platform, or surface end-to-end rather than individual features
  • Solid instincts for animation principles including easing curves, choreography, anticipation, follow-through, interruptibility, and perceived performance
  • Fluency in Figma at expert level — auto-layout, variants, variables, and code connect — and proficiency with design engineering technologies like framer-motion, gsap, and lottie for web-based animation
  • A demonstrable obsession with craft, backed by a portfolio, side projects, GitHub, or production work that includes systems-level work and not just feature work
  • Experience driving adoption of a design system or shared platform across an engineering org, with a track record of influencing technical or design direction beyond your immediate team
  • Experience with AI product surfaces — tool-call UIs, streaming responses, agent state, and dynamic UI rendering — and comfort navigating ambiguous, cross-team problems with good judgment about when to loop others in
  • A genuine commitment to WRITER's values of Connect, Challenge, and Own

Skills

Required:TypeScriptReactFigmaAnimation tooling (framer-motion, gsap, lottie)

Benefits

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
  • Fertility and family planning support
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
  • Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
  • Annual work-life stipends: Wellness, Learning and development
  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
  • Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k
Last updated Oct 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About WRITER

End-to-end agent builder platform that unites IT & business

Eliminate silos with an end-to-end agent builder platform, designed for collaboration—without compromise. Build, activate, and supervise agents.

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