Description
As a Lead Design Engineer at Samsara, you'll build systems that power the product and scale the design team's impact. You'll define components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for people and agents to build with. You'll work in design and code, shipping interactive UI across web and mobile.
Your work will shape how quickly teams can build, how reliably products behave, and how confidently customers use them.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation.
- Govern taste through structure, preventing poor AI-generated content.
- 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 who use the system, and incorporate their feedback.
- Share AI tools, workflows, and tactics with the wider design and engineering teams.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.
- Portfolio showcasing design system or component library work.
- Strong interaction and visual design skills.
- Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.
- Familiarity with AI tools, such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Figma Make.
Compensation:
- Annual base salary: $151,300-$195,800 CAD
- Eligible for initial RSU grant and ongoing refresh opportunities
Benefits:
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health and parental leave plans
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