Design Engineer

The role

The Design Engineer will own the design system and product experience across web and mobile surfaces. You will design and ship production-quality front-end experiences and define how people interact with 3D worlds.

What you will do

• Translate brand into rules for typography, colour, iconography, layout, components, and interaction.
• Own shared Figma libraries, components, variables, templates, and documentation.
• Design responsive web experiences for world creation, 3D viewer, editing, onboarding, accounts, and pricing.
• Design mobile journeys for capture, upload, generation, and viewing.
• Define spatial interaction patterns including camera behaviour, navigation, selection, editing, and transitions.
• Design the marketing site, careers pages, technical documentation, and presentation templates.
• Turn designs and prototypes into production-quality interfaces using front-end implementation.
• Build reusable components and implement responsive behaviour and interaction states.
• Collaborate with product engineers through review and release.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in product design, design engineering, digital product design, or a similar role.
• A strong portfolio that includes a scalable design system and shipped web and mobile product work.
• Strong systems thinking across typography, layout, colour, components, interaction states, and responsive behaviour.
• Strong interaction and product-design fundamentals across responsive web and native mobile experiences, including accessibility and platform conventions.
• Fluency in Figma, including components, variables, prototyping, and design systems.
• Able to write and ship production front-end code using React and TypeScript, or a comparable modern web stack.
• Strong attention to accessibility, responsiveness, performance, and maintainability.
• Comfortable working directly with engineers, understanding implementation constraints, reviewing builds, and refining details through release.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

• Experience designing products involving 3D, spatial computing, cameras, creative tools, or technically complex workflows.
• Familiarity with Gaussian splats, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, PlayCanvas, Blender, Unreal, AR, XR, or VR.
• Experience with 3D web development using Three.js, React Three Fiber, PlayCanvas, WebGL, or similar tools.
• Experience with native mobile design tooling or production mobile application stacks.
• Experience building or extending a design system across both product and marketing surfaces.

About the company

SpAItial is pioneering Physically-grounded World Models, a new AI paradigm designed to generate and reason about the appearance and physics of real and imagined environments.