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Lead Design Engineer

Samsara· Product Design
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Remote$137.4k - $231kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Remote role for the US, focused on building and governing AI-assisted design systems and design tokens, with emphasis on UX/UI for web and mobile, AI generation tooling, and cross-functional collaboration.

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 (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as the company scales globally across new offices.

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. You can explain, review, and debug the code they generate.
  • Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

Skills

Required:Design systemsUX/UI design for web and mobileDesign tokens and themingAI design tools and integrationCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Total Rewards includes 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.

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