Senior Design Engineer

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Senior Design Engineer to enhance the developer experience. In this role, you will collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to shape innovative solutions and improve user experiences through exploration and prototyping.

Responsibilities:

• Collaboration & Planning: Work with your team and partners to estimate schedules, set priorities, and support product planning for ongoing projects
• Problem-Solving & Synthesis: Generate and iterate solutions for moderately complex product challenges by synthesizing user needs and business insights to improve product design
• Exploration & Prototyping: Rapidly explore and prototype interactive concepts, especially around emerging UX patterns and AI-ready design languages, moving fast to test ideas and learn what works. Experiment with design primitives and open source systems
• Front-End Craft & Adaptability: Deliver front-end experiences with a focus on quality and detail, adapting quickly to new technologies and approaches—even when all the answers aren’t clear
• Systems & Architecture: Support evolving and scaling design systems, contribute to robust information architecture, and help advance open source initiatives
• Design Systems Integration: Integrate and use design system components to deliver product consistency and alignment with company standards
• Communication: Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-disciplinary teams throughout ideation, design, and development for inclusive and well-understood messaging
• Accessibility & Craft: Deliver accessible, high-quality visual and interaction designs from concept to completion, ensuring assets, flows, and animations support GitHub’s brand and principles
• Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision

Requirements:

• 7+ years' experience in product or service design
• OR bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in product or service design
• OR master's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 3+ years' experience in product or service design
• OR doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in product or service design
• OR equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience shipping products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
• Knowledge of typical data center designs/architectures and be following industry design trends
• Experience with performing complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and present the justification to management in a high-level review
• Engineering experience working in modern web development (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript methodologies, etc.)
• Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices