Principal Design Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Principal Design Engineer (AI): Shaping and implementing hirify.global's product experience, defining design engineering leadership with an accent on driving ideas into production systems, scalability, and delighting users. Focus on leading high-impact initiatives from concept through delivery, advancing hirify.global’s design system, and championing performance and accessibility in UI engineering.

Location: In this role, you can work from Remote, United States.

Salary: $160,200.00 – $425,000.00 USD/Yr

Company

hirify.global is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting, home to the biggest open-source community.

What you will do

• Define and communicate long-term technical and design vision for core experiences at hirify.global.
• Partner with product and design leaders to set product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Own high-impact initiatives from concept through production delivery.
• Ship production-ready code reflecting strong design thinking and solid engineering.
• Advance hirify.global’s design system by setting standards and creating reusable components.
• Mentor design engineers and cross-disciplinary partners on technical craft.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in product or service design, or equivalent.
• Experience shipping production-ready experiences.
• Hands-on experience with modern front-end technologies (React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript) and design systems.
• Experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, or product design.
• Must be based in the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience building AI and agentic experiences.
• Experience influencing technical and design choices across teams.
• Experience leading design systems initiatives or platform-level UI engineering.
• Background in mentoring and developing engineering and design talent.
• Experience advancing accessibility and performance best practices.
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work environment.
• Competitive pay and generous learning and growth opportunities.
• Excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are.
• Values include customer-obsessed, ship to learn, growth mindset, own the outcome, better together, diverse and inclusive.
• Focus on creating space to do your best work and flourish on your own terms.