Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
6+ years of professional experience as a frontend engineer
Deep expertise in modern TypeScript and component-based frameworks like React
Hands-on experience with design systems or shared component libraries
Ability to independently manage design system work end to end
Experience with frontend build and distribution tooling
Strong collaboration and communication skills
Responsibilities
Own the architecture and evolution of the design system and component libraries
Create standardized tooling and workflows for UI library creation
Partner with product engineering teams to gather frontend needs and feedback
Collaborate with product and system designers for flexible UI solutions
Design scalable frontend foundations including theming and accessibility
Explore frameworks for AI-assisted interfaces and set reliability standards
Write and contribute to design documents and drive technical decisions
Mentor engineers to elevate frontend quality and best practices
Benefits
Flexible work environment
Opportunities for professional development
Collaborative team culture
Access to cutting-edge technology
Support for work-life balance
Full Job Description
About the role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in frontend engineering and has deep design system experience. You will set how our teams build, share, and ship user interfaces across a growing set of products. Many teams build UI-heavy libraries and tools, and you will make it fast and consistent for them to do so. You will also help shape how our interfaces adapt to a new generation of AI-driven, dynamically generated experiences.
You'll work independently and own problems from first design through production. You'll also act as a technical leader and a multiplier for the engineers around you. We're building in an AI-native world. You should be comfortable working with agents while still caring about code quality. We see agents as a chance to help the whole company build better, safer code.
What you'll do
Own the architecture, evolution, and adoption of our design system and shared component libraries, working independently from design through delivery.
Create standardized tooling, templates, and build and distribution workflows that let teams and agents create, package, and ship UI libraries consistently, with less duplicated effort.
Partner with product engineering teams across the company to understand their frontend needs, gather feedback, and turn it into reusable, well-documented solutions.
Collaborate closely with product designers and system designers to create flexible, extensible UI tooling and solutions.
Design frontend foundations that scale, including theming, accessibility, performance, versioning, testing, and documentation practices.
Explore and build frameworks for dynamic, AI-assisted interfaces, and help set the standards that keep them reliable and consistent.
Write and contribute significantly to design documents, and drive technical decisions through to alignment.
Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for frontend quality and best practices.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
6+ years of professional experience as a frontend engineer, with deep expertise in modern TypeScript and component-based frameworks such as React.
Hands-on experience building, maintaining, and driving adoption of a design system or shared component library.
Ability to carry out design system work independently and end to end, including API design, tokens, theming, documentation, release, and consumer support.
Experience with frontend build, packaging, and distribution tooling for shared libraries.
Significant contributions to design documents.
Experience mentoring software engineers.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, and comfort working with cross-functional users and teams.
Nice to have
Experience building interfaces for AI or agent-driven products.
Experience with data visualization, charting, or map and graphics rendering in the browser.
Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is a software company that provides a simulation platform for autonomous vehicles. The platform allows developers to test and validate their autonomous vehicle software in a virtual environment before deploying it on real vehicles. Applied Intuition was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
