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Lead Design Engineer

Samsara· Product Design
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RemoteCA$151.3k - CA$195.8kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Lead Design Engineer role at Samsara, a remote position available to candidates residing in Canada, focused on building and governing AI-assisted design systems, design tokens, and high-quality UI generation for web and mobile within a fast-growing, globally distributed company.

Responsibilities

  • Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
  • Govern taste through structure, preventing ai slop from ever making it into our customers’ hands.
  • Make sure system decisions translate cleanly into code, with shared ownership of quality, performance, and maintainability.
  • Build accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system by default.
  • Set clear contribution, governance, and deprecation models that balance speed with system integrity.
  • Meet regularly with the designers and engineers who use the system, and bring their feedback alongside usage data into what you build next.
  • Share the AI tools, workflows, and tactics that work with the wider design and engineering teams.
  • Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering, building UX/UI for web and mobile applications.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Shipped design system or component library work, with a portfolio, case studies, or code samples that explain what you built, how you decided, and how teams adopted it.
  • Strong interaction and visual design skills, with the judgment to know when to use an established pattern and when to invent one.
  • Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
  • AI tools in your regular practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make), with shipped work you can attribute to them, and experience connecting them to a design system.
  • Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

Skills

Required:UI/UX design for web and mobileDesign systems and tokensAI tooling in design workflow

Benefits

  • Total Rewards: base salary, performance-based bonus/variable pay, and equity (for eligible roles)
  • Flexible, employee-led remote model
  • Professional development stipend
  • Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
Last updated Oct 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Samsara

Samsara | The Connected Operations Platform

Samsara's connected operations platform helps 20,000+ operations improve safety, cut costs, and run smarter — built with operators.

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