Pilot.com

Design Systems Engineer

Pilot.com

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaNew YorkUnited 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

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

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