Design Engineer

About the role

Retell AI is hiring a Design Engineer to bridge the gap between design and code. The role involves building and maintaining the design system, prototyping in code, implementing UI primitives, ensuring design-code parity, and collaborating with the product designer and engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Work AI-first: use Cursor and Claude Code as your starting point for component work, with your own judgment refining quality
• Build and own the Retell design system: component library, Storybook, design tokens, and Figma variables
• Prototype in React and TypeScript and test with real users before full systemization
• Translate Figma designs into production-grade components with pixel-level accuracy
• Own design-code parity across Retell's core product: dashboard, agent config, CRM views
• Review frontend PRs for visual quality, not just functionality
• Document and share AI-native prompts and workflows with the design and engineering team
• Partner with the product designer to evolve the visual language as the product scales

Requirements

• Strong Figma skills: component library, variables, auto layout
• Solid frontend: HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining UI component libraries
• Design systems knowledge: tokens, spacing, visual consistency at scale
• Active use of AI coding tools with clear opinions on where they help and where they don't
• Experience with Storybook
• Motion and interaction design sensibility
• Familiarity with accessibility standards
• Background at a design-forward SaaS company
• Interest in mentoring others on AI-native workflows

Qualifications

• Must have strong Figma skills: component library, variables, auto layout
• Solid frontend: HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining UI component libraries
• Design systems knowledge: tokens, spacing, visual consistency at scale
• Active use of AI coding tools with clear opinions on where they help and where they don't
• Experience with Storybook
• Motion and interaction design sensibility
• Familiarity with accessibility standards
• Background at a design-forward SaaS company
• Interest in mentoring others on AI-native workflows

Skills

• Strong Figma skills: component library, variables, auto layout
• Solid frontend: HTML, CSS, React, TypeScript
• Experience building and maintaining UI component libraries
• Design systems knowledge: tokens, spacing, visual consistency at scale
• Active use of AI coding tools with clear opinions on where they help and where they don't
• Experience with Storybook
• Motion and interaction design sensibility
• Familiarity with accessibility standards
• Background at a design-forward SaaS company
• Interest in mentoring others on AI-native workflows

Benefits

• 100% coverage for medical, dental, and vision insurance
• $70/day DoorDash credit for unlimited breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
• $200/month wellness reimbursement (gym, fitness classes, etc.)
• $300/month commuter reimbursement (gas, Caltrain, etc.)
• $75/month phone bill reimbursement
• $50/month internet reimbursement

Pay

180k - 300k

Schedule

Full-time