Design Engineer, III

GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development, and they are seeking a Design Engineer III to help shape the next generation of developer tools. This role involves collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams to prototype and build interactive experiences that millions of developers rely on, while driving clarity and quality in design engineering.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Shaping: Defining great products and developer experiences with a point of view, where good defaults and what not to include is as intentional as essential as what makes it into the final solution
• Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision
• Progress and tempo: it's easy to get caught up in the meta-design details, so our team must be mindful that we keep making decisions and move forward quickly. We prioritize progress over correctness
• Curiosity: In a fast-paced environment like AI and LLMs, our designers remain curious and comfortable learning about existing and upcoming new capabilities to identify opportunities
• Design Quality: Bridge the gap and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to build high-quality, scalable, and interactive components