Design Engineer

Tessera Labs

Design Engineer converting design to code for enterprise AI solutions at Tessera Labs. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and maintain design systems while ensuring accessibility and performance.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $179,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own, build, and maintain our common component library — designing reusable, accessible, well-documented components and implementing them in production front-end code.
Establish and uphold design patterns across the platform.
Keep the system ahead of the platform's growth: anticipate new patterns, refactor and extend components, prevent drift and one-off implementations.
Bridge design and engineering: translate high-fidelity designs into faithful, performant, reusable UI, and feed real implementation constraints back into the design process.
Build prototypes and reference implementations that show how new patterns should look and behave in code.
Partner with product designers, PMs, and engineers to align on vision, ensure technical feasibility, and ship at a high quality bar.
Champion accessibility, performance, and consistency as first-class properties of the system.
Maintain the system's health over time: versioning, documentation, migration paths, and developer ergonomics.

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years working at the intersection of design and front-end engineering (design engineer, UX engineer, design systems engineer, or a front-end engineer with strong design sensibility).
Strong front-end engineering skills: production experience with React and TypeScript, modern CSS, and component-driven architecture.
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining a component library or design system that real teams shipped on top of.
A strong eye for interaction and visual detail: you can design a component, not just implement someone else's spec.
Deep care for accessibility, performance, and cross-surface consistency.
Fluency in Figma and an understanding of how design tools and code should stay in sync.
Systems-level thinking: you design and build for reuse and scale, not one-off screens.
Excellent communication and a collaborative, proactive mindset; comfortable owning an area end to end.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Own the component library and design patterns at the foundation of an entire enterprise AI platform.
Work at the intersection of design, front-end engineering, AI, and ERP systems.
High ownership, high impact, and direct influence on how our product is built.
Collaborate with a deeply technical and customer-focused team.

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Hard Skills & Tools

ReactTypeScriptmodern CSScomponent-driven architecturecomponent librarydesign systemaccessibilityperformanceversioningdocumentation

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborative mindsetproactive mindsetdesign sensibilitysystems-level thinkingattention to detail