Principal, Agentic Product Design Engineer

Position Overview:

We're looking for an engineer to help transform how products are designed and built through AI-assisted workflows, intelligent tooling, and agentic systems. Embedded within the Design System team, you'll work at the intersection of product development, user experience, and AI, creating shared capabilities that help teams move faster, make better decisions, and deliver more intelligent experiences. Your focus will be on identifying high-leverage opportunities where AI can improve how Product, Design, and Engineering teams work, then turning those opportunities into scalable systems, tools, and patterns that can be adopted across the organization.

You'll partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Research, and Operations teams to identify where agentic systems can meaningfully improve how we design, build, ship, and use products. Sometimes that means building internal tools and workflow automations. Sometimes it means prototyping entirely new interaction models powered by LLMs and AI agents. Sometimes it means helping teams rethink the boundaries between product UX, developer experience, and organizational process.

Within the first 6-12 months, this person is expected to identify and deliver several high-leverage AI initiatives, establish a roadmap for AI-enabled product development, create reusable patterns and tooling adopted by multiple teams, and help shape how our organization designs, builds, and ships AI-powered experiences.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define the Future of AI-Enabled Product Development
  
  • Partner with Product, Design, Engineering, and Marketing teams to identify and prioritize high-leverage opportunities where AI can improve workflows, customer experiences, and the delivery of product value
  • Help shape the organization's strategy for AI-assisted workflows, intelligent tooling, and AI-powered user experiences
  • Influence roadmaps, investment decisions, and operating models that support AI adoption across teams
• Build Shared AI Capabilities and Infrastructure
  
  • Create reusable infrastructure, frameworks, APIs, and tooling that enable teams to build AI-powered experiences consistently and efficiently
  • Develop internal platforms and workflows that augment product development with AI capabilities
  • Establish scalable foundations that help teams move from experimentation to adoption
• Evolve Experience Systems for the AI Era
  
  • Partner with design system engineers and designers to define patterns, standards, and interaction models for AI-powered experiences
  • Ensure AI experiences remain coherent, accessible, trustworthy, and usable across products
  • Explore how agents, copilots, and adaptive interfaces can become reusable capabilities across the product ecosystem
• Prototype and Validate Emerging Concepts
  
  • Build prototypes and proof-of-concepts that explore new interaction models, intelligent workflows, and agent-driven experiences
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and approaches, including LLMs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, orchestration tools, and evaluation methods
  • Use experimentation to inform long-term platform and product strategy
  • Translate successful prototypes into production-ready capabilities, partnering with teams to deliver real improvements to products, workflows, and user experiences
  • Identify and implement high-impact enhancements across design system tooling, AI-enabled workflows, and product experiences, balancing long-term platform investments with immediate user and developer needs
• Enable Teams and Drive Adoption
  
  • Mentor engineers and designers working at the intersection of UX, systems thinking, and AI
  • Establish best practices for responsible AI development, governance, and human-in-the-loop systems
  • Help teams adopt new tools, workflows, and capabilities through coaching, collaboration, and shared standards

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, design engineering, design systems, creative technology, UX engineering, or related fields
• Strong frontend engineering skills with modern web technologies and application architecture
• Experience building AI-powered applications using LLM APIs and orchestration frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to prototype quickly and think in systems
• Strong understanding of interaction design, product thinking, and user experience principles
• Experience building developer platforms, internal tools, or workflow systems
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and operate effectively in 0-to-1 environments
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
• A systems-oriented mindset with strong product intuition

Valued Skills:

• Experience with agent frameworks, retrieval systems, MCP servers, or multi-agent orchestration
• Experience integrating AI into product development workflows
• Familiarity with design systems and component architecture
• Experience with evaluation pipelines, prompt engineering, or AI observability tooling
• Background in computational design, creative tooling, or generative interfaces
• Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives

Compensation:

Alteryx is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation. Final compensation is determined by several factors, including but not limited to relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

The salary range for this role in the United States is $154,200 - $203,110.

Bonus payouts are based on individual and company performance.

In addition to base pay and bonus eligibility, this role includes clear forms of additional compensation, such as:

• A monthly Connectivity Plus stipend of $150 to support remote work-related expenses
• An annual $200 home office reimbursement

Alteryx offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial security, and overall well-being, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid parental leave, caregiver leave, and flexible time off
• Mental health support and wellness reimbursement
• Career development and education assistance

Interested? Learn more and apply today at alteryx.com/careers!

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Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we're invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.

Benefits & Perks:

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