Design Engineer (AI)

Location: On-site in the United States or Canada; listed locations include New York, San Francisco, and Toronto.

Base salary: $200,000–$245,000 in California, New York, and Washington; $180,000–$220,000 in other US states; CA$260,000–CA$310,000 in Canada. Equity is offered.

Company

Cohere is an enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for real-world business applications.

What you will do

• Own and evolve the Waypoint Figma library, including component structure, variants, properties, tokens, and documentation.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components and contribute to component packages.
• Maintain synchronization between Figma design tokens and code representations such as CSS custom properties and Tailwind configuration.
• Partner with product designers and engineers to turn patterns into reusable, adoptable system components.
• Develop tooling connecting Figma and code, including sync scripts, plugins, and documentation sites.
• Shape system architecture, versioning, packaging, and AI-readable component and token structures.

Requirements

• Fluency in both Figma-based design systems work and production component engineering.
• Experience building design-to-code synchronization tooling, Figma plugins, token pipelines, MCP-based workflows, or similar systems.
• Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards and their integration into components.
• Experience packaging and versioning component libraries for multiple teams, including npm packages, semantic versioning, and changelogs.
• Experience or interest in AI-native product environments and AI-assisted design systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-platform design systems, including iOS/SwiftUI, Android/Jetpack Compose, or Style Dictionary.

Culture & Benefits

• Full health and dental benefits with a separate mental health budget.
• Six weeks of paid vacation and up to six months of 100% parental leave top-up for either parent.
• Lunch stipend, annual enrichment benefits, and an education and learning stipend.
• RRSP matching, 401(k), or pension scheme depending on location.
• Home office stipend, co-working benefit, office travel budget, and an annual company offsite.
• Office locations provide daily lunch, snacks, and community events.