Staff Design Engineer

Onebrief

Design Engineer at Onebrief turning design vision into high-fidelity experiences for military planning software. Collaborating with teams to enhance operational workflows and build intuitive prototypes.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $205,000 - $255,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Collaborate closely with designers on core real-time collaboration features such as dashboards, maps, timeline visualizations, and briefing workflows—cornerstones of operational planning in Onebrief.
Translate mission and user needs into functional, data-driven interactive prototypes that validate workflows and behaviors before development.
Help evolve Onebrief’s design system, ensuring component durability, performance, and accessibility across verticals. Includes contributions in both Figma and code.
Extend the system’s tokens, components, and interaction patterns for consistency without slowing delivery.
Partner with engineers to implement design at scale, balancing fidelity, feasibility, and performance.
Move rapidly from sketch to prototype to production, using the right fidelity for each stage (Figma or code-adjacent).
Validate usability through prototypes and tests that prove solutions before development.
Leverage AI-powered tools (e.g. Figma Make, V0, Cursor, Lovable, etc.) to accelerate prototyping and validate behaviors quickly.
Ensure shipped features meet accessibility, reliability, and performance standards expected by military users.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience moving ideas through design and into prototypes, ideally with real user impact and usage data.
Comfortable owning a problem from sketch to spec to shipped UI.
Experienced with data-dense, highly interactive UIs and the constraints of low connectivity, strict permissions, and audit requirements.
Experience working with APIs and reasoning about data flows.
Excellent written communication—async by default. You show your work through flows, prototypes, and specs.
Eligible for and able to obtain a U.S. security clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity: Share in the company's success.
Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO.
Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match to secure your future.
Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.

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Hard Skills & Tools

prototypingUI designinteraction designdata-driven designaccessibility standardsAPI integrationuser experience designdesign system developmentperformance optimizationusability testing

Soft Skills

collaborationproblem ownershipwritten communicationuser impact focusadaptabilityattention to detailcritical thinkingtime managementcreativitystakeholder engagement

Certifications

U.S. security clearance eligibility