{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3887af38ab9b562aa6a8ebff","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3887af38ab9b562aa6a8ebff","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3887af38ab9b562aa6a8ebff","title":"Staff Design Engineer","description":"Studio Design System Engineer – Role Overview\nAs a Staff Design System Engineer at Pilot, you will build, maintain, and grow a production-ready UI system that spans Figma, Storybook, and Vue code. You will bridge design and engineering, ensuring design intent is faithfully executed and components remain scalable, accessible, and easy to adopt across Product, Marketing, and AI-enabled experiences.\n\nWhat You Will Own\n\nAuthority over the design system in Figma, Storybook, and production code.\n\nStewardship of Storybook as the ultimate source of truth for UI components.\n\nAlignment between design intent and shipped UI.\n\nComponent quality, consistency, and scalability across the product platform.\n\nFast prototyping support for the design team, including AI tools.\n\nWhat You Will Do\n\nExtend the design system to support all product, marketing, and AI-ready experiences from a single shared foundation.\n\nPartner daily with product designers to shape components early, never retroactively.\n\nCollaborate with frontend engineers to ensure easy adoption and extension of components.\n\nBuild and maintain reusable, accessible UI components in Vue.\n\nTranslate design system decisions into clean, documented, production‑ready components.\n\nKeep Figma, Storybook, and code in sync and actively close gaps.\n\nEvolve the design system to be AI‑ready, enabling Rapid Prototyping.\n\nWhat You Bring\n\n7+ years of software engineering experience.\n\nStrong frontend development skills, including modern CSS.\n\nDeep experience owning or working with a design system.\n\nHands‑on experience with Storybook in a production environment.\n\nStrong design sensibility and the ability to challenge design decisions.\n\nComfort acting as the bridge between design and engineering.\n\nExperience with AI‑assisted design and development workflows.\n\nFamiliarity with intent‑driven UI concepts is a plus.\n\nClear communication skills and a bias toward practical solutions.\n\nThis position is remote; candidates must be based in the U.S. (CA, GA, NY, NC, TN, TX, WA).\n\nBenefits & Compensation\n\nBase pay range: $185,000 – $313,000 (most remote locations) or $231,000 – $313,000 (San Francisco, CA and New York City, NY).\n\nEquity, 401(k) with company match, health benefits, and other benefits.\n\nFlexible vacation/time‑off policy and full federal holiday observance.\n\nAdditional wellness benefits.\n\nParental leave (100% pay for 12 weeks).\n\n401(k) plan.\n\nLegal & EEO Statement\nPilot is an equal‑opportunity employer. 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