Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)

The role

This frontend engineer will build the design system used across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. You will develop component APIs, manage the design-token pipeline, and maintain interaction quality and accessibility.

What you will do

• Design and build core primitives like overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback
• Work across the design-token pipeline for authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing
• Partner with design to translate Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components
• Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives
• Build accessible components for keyboard, focus, contrast, and screen readers
• Support consuming teams through docs, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation

Required qualifications

• 4+ years building production frontend
• Strong React and TypeScript, and CSS
• Working accessibility knowledge (WCAG, ARIA patterns, assistive tech)
• Comfort collaborating closely with designers on the visual and interaction language
• Interest in building reusable components

Nice to have

• experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform

About the company

Perplexity is looking for a frontend engineer to build the design system behind every Perplexity product.