
Design Systems Engineer
Pilot.com
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $185,000 - $313,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Ownership of our design system across Figma, Storybook, production code & AI vibecoded prototypes
- Stewardship of Storybook as the source of truth for UI components and usage
- Tight alignment between design intent and shipped UI
- Component quality, consistency, and scalability across the product
- Expand the design system to support product, marketing, and AI-ready experiences from a single, shared foundation
- Partner daily with product designers to shape components early, not after the fact
- Partner with frontend engineers to ensure components are easy to adopt and extend
- Build and maintain reusable, accessible UI components in Vue
- Translate design system decisions into clean, documented, production-ready components
- Keep Figma, Storybook, and code in sync and actively close gaps
- Leverage MCP when necessary to help connect intent, components, and UI
- Evolve the design system to be AI-ready, enabling vibecoding prototypes by mapping intent to constrained, brand-safe components
Requirements
- Strong frontend skills modern CSS
- Deep experience working with or owning a design system
- Hands-on experience with Storybook in a production environment
- Strong design sensibility and ability to read and challenge design decisions
- Comfort acting as the bridge between design and engineering
- Experience with vibecoding tools or AI-assisted development workflows
- Familiarity with MCP or intent-driven UI concepts is a big plus
- Clear communication and a bias toward practical solutions
- This position is only available for remote employment in the United States in the following states: CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, and WA
Benefits
- Flexible vacation/time-off policy
- All federal holidays are observed
- Competitive benefits package including additional wellness benefits
- Parental leave for birthing or non-birthing parents – 100% pay for 12 weeks
- 401(k) plan
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
modern CSSdesign system ownershipStorybookUI component developmentVueaccessible UI componentsvibecoding toolsAI-assisted development workflowsintent-driven UI concepts
Soft Skills
strong design sensibilityclear communicationability to challenge design decisionscollaboration with product designersbridge between design and engineeringbias toward practical solutions