# Staff Design Engineer

**Company**: Mixpanel
**Location**: San Francisco, US
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $236,000-$300,000 USD
**Category**: Design
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

At Mixpanel, we believe design excellence is a competitive moat. As a Staff Design Engineer at Mixpanel, you'll sit within the design organisation and lead the transformation of our design system from a component library into something far more important: the infrastructure that powers how we design, build, and ship in an AI-native world.

## Responsibilities

- Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice

- Translate Mixpanel's design standards, principles, and taste into systems that live in the code

- Build a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents, AI coding tools, and AI prototyping workflows can reliably build on

- Evolve our design system to be foundational infrastructure for AI-assisted workflows

- Shape how Mixpanel looks and behaves in an AI-native world

- Sit within the product design team and collaborate on reimagining Mixpanel for a world where interfaces are conversational, agentic, and adaptive

- Own the bridge between design and code

- Build systems that connect design to code and keep the two in sync

- Define what 'shippable' looks like as AI writes more of the code

- Work directly in the codebase

- Ship PRs that improve the product

- Make design a force multiplier for engineering, not a bottleneck

- Stand up prototyping and AI tooling infrastructure

- Build the workflows, tools, and infrastructure that let designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity, with working code, real components, and interactive states, without waiting on engineering

- Identify the places where design and engineering lose time, intent, or quality in the handoff, and build AI-powered workflows that close those gaps

- Set and model the craft bar

- Establish what great looks like , not through documentation alone, but through the quality of what you ship

- Enable designers to work more code-adjacent and engineers to build with better components

- Stay ahead of how AI is changing EPD workflows and bring that change into the org responsibly

## What success looks like

- The design system is a reliable foundation that AI tools and agents build on, not an obstacle they work around

- Design and code are in sync; the gap between what's designed and what ships is closed

- Designers can prototype at high fidelity without waiting on engineering

- Engineers spend less time on UI polish and rework, more time on features

- The Mixpanel product feels unmistakably itself , cohesive, expressive, and craft-forward , as it evolves into an AI-native experience

- The org is enabled on the latest AI-assisted design and development workflows

## Qualifications

- Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js

- Experience with design systems

- Strong design sensibility: you care about craft, consistency, interaction quality, and taste

- Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations, and what's emerging in this space

- Experience working with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub

- A track record of working across design and engineering: you've done both, and you know how to collaborate across both

- Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you set direction, influence standards, and manage complex projects without a lot of hand-holding

- 8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role

## Skills

### Required
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- CSS
- HTML
- Next.js
- design systems
- Figma
- Storybook
- VSCode
- Chromatic
- GitHub

### Nice to have
- data visualizations
- brand and/or product design
- accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz

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