Lead Design Engineer

Samsara is hiring a Lead Design Engineer to build and scale the systems that power its product design team. The role develops design-system components and AI-assisted design and code-generation workflows, and ships interactive web and mobile UI while ensuring quality, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop core system components, evals, and feedback loops to harden AI design and code generation
• Govern taste through structure, preventing ai slop from ever making it into our customers’ hands
• Make sure 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 that balance speed with system integrity
• Meet regularly with the designers and engineers who use the system, and bring their feedback alongside usage data into what you build next
• Share the AI tools, workflows, and tactics that work with the wider design and engineering teams
• Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as the company scales globally across new offices

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering, building UX/UI for web and mobile applications
• Shipped design system or component library work, with a portfolio, case studies, or code samples that explain what you built, how you decided, and how teams adopted it
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, with the judgment to know when to use an established pattern and when to invent one
• Experience with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards
• AI tools in your regular practice (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code, Figma Make), with shipped work you can attribute to them, and experience connecting them to a design system
• You can explain, review, and debug the code they generate
• Experience partnering with designers, engineers, and product managers on short cycles