Senior Design Engineer, Design Systems

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Clipboard
Full time
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USA
09/20/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Establish design-system architecture and foundations across Figma and code, including primitives, tokens, components, patterns, and user flows.
Build reusable production-ready frontend components with complete states, interactions, motion, and accessibility support.
Keep Figma, production code, and Storybook aligned as the system evolves.
Define and enforce standards for consistency, accessibility, quality, and maintainability.
Create AI tooling, skills, documentation, and rules that help EPD teams build with the design system.
Partner with designers, product managers, and engineers to address complex workflows and edge cases.

Requirements

6+ years of experience building production frontend design systems for multiple mobile and web product surfaces.
Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies, component-based architecture, and the ability to work in a large established codebase.
Deep experience with component libraries, design-token pipelines, Storybook, visual regression, and Figma workflows or plugins.
Strong UI and UX judgment, accessibility fundamentals, communication skills, and senior-level judgment in ambiguous environments.
Experience standing up or consolidating design systems and aligning Figma libraries with production code.
Practical experience using AI to ship prototypes, components, and design-system work, including building AI-usable documentation and rules.
A body of work demonstrating shipped impact across production UI, component systems, prototypes, and system documentation.
Experience with two-sided marketplaces or healthcare, operations-heavy, or other high-stakes domains is preferred.

Benefits

Remote-first work arrangement; open to US remote candidates.
San Francisco Bay Area location is preferred.

Salary: $180k - $250k/yr

Clipboard

Clipboard builds an app-based marketplace that matches healthcare facilities and schools with local nurses and clinicians to fill open shifts on demand. The privately held company, founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Francisco, operates across the United States with focus areas including lon...

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