Lead Design Engineer

The role

You will build systems that power products and scale the design team's impact. You will define components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines while shipping interactive UI across web and mobile.

What you will do

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
• Govern taste through structure to prevent ai slop.
• Ensure 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.
• Meet regularly with designers and engineers to bring feedback and usage data into builds.
• Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with wider design and engineering teams.
• Champion and embed Samsara’s cultural principles.

Required 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.
• Portfolio, case studies, or code samples explaining what you built, how you decided, and how teams adopted it.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills.
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
• AI tools in your regular practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make).
• Experience connecting AI tools to a design system.
• Ability to explain, review, and debug the code AI generates.
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles.

Benefits

• Flexible, employee-led remote model
• Professional development stipend
• Comprehensive health and parental leave plans

Before you apply

• Applications without a portfolio cannot be considered.
• All offers are contingent upon securing and maintaining the legal right to work in the specified work location.

About the company

Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, a platform that enables organizations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data. The company helps improve the safety, efficiency and sustainability of physical operations.