Lead Design Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Create systems that drive the functionality of Samsara’s products and enhance the design team’s influence.

• Establish components, patterns, tokens, and guidelines for both users and AI agents.

• Collaborate in design and coding to deliver highly interactive web and mobile user interfaces.

• Formalize principles, heuristics, and quality benchmarks for AI generation.

• Develop essential system components, assessments, and feedback mechanisms for AI design and code generation.

• Oversee design quality and ensure that low-quality AI outputs do not reach customers.

• Convert system decisions into maintainable and efficient code.

• Integrate accessibility, responsiveness, and performance into the system as default features.

• Define models for contribution, governance, and deprecation.

• Engage with designers and engineers, incorporating their feedback and usage data into future projects.

• Distribute effective AI tools, workflows, and strategies with design and engineering teams.

• Advocate for Samsara’s cultural principles as the organization expands globally.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in design engineering, design systems, product design, or front-end engineering, specifically in developing UX/UI for web and mobile applications.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Design, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience in delivering design system or component library projects, supported by a portfolio, case studies, or code samples.

• A portfolio is mandatory; applications submitted without a portfolio will not be considered.

• Proficient interaction and visual design capabilities.

• Familiarity with design tokens, theming, and accessibility standards.

• Regular use of AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or Figma Make, with completed work attributable to those tools.

• Experience linking AI tools to a design system.

• Ability to articulate, review, and troubleshoot AI-generated code.

• Proven experience collaborating with designers, engineers, and product managers within short development cycles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff.

• Ongoing refresh equity opportunities linked to performance.

• Performance-based bonuses/variable pay.

• Above-market total compensation.

• Flexible, employee-led remote work model.

• Professional development stipend.

• Comprehensive health coverage.

• Parental leave benefits.

• Adaptable working arrangements.

• Reasonable accommodations provided throughout the recruitment process.