Staff Product Design Engineer

About the role

The Staff Design Engineer plays a crucial role in transforming product concepts into secure, deployable software solutions. This role bridges the gap between design intent and production implementation, working alongside product designers, researchers, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design and user experience
• Partner with Product Designers to create intuitive, accessible, and user-centered application experiences
• Contribute to user flows, wireframes, prototypes, design systems, interaction patterns, and application architecture
• Ensure design intent, usability, accessibility, and workflow integrity are maintained throughout implementation
• Participate in design reviews and provide technical guidance during discovery and solution development
• Leverage AI design and development tools like Lovable, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and emerging AI platforms to accelerate product discovery, prototyping, and application development
• Evaluate, improve, and harden AI-generated code and application architectures
• Establish repeatable workflows that improve design-to-production velocity across the organization
• Help define best practices for AI-assisted product development within Product Design
• Build and refine working applications
• Transform design prototypes into functional, scalable applications
• Refactor generated or prototype code into maintainable, enterprise-grade solutions
• Develop reusable components, frontend architectures, and implementation patterns that align with design system standards
• Improve application quality, responsiveness, accessibility, maintainability, observability, and performance
• Serve as the primary technical bridge between Product Design and Engineering delivery teams
• Integrate with backend services and data
• Design secure integration patterns that support scalability and long-term maintainability
• Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure alignment with organizational standards
• Ensure data is handled safely with appropriate validation, access controls, privacy protections, and error handling
• Apply security and production readiness
• Own technical hardening activities required to move applications from prototype to enterprise deployment
• Review applications for security risks, exposed secrets, insecure APIs, dependency vulnerabilities, authentication concerns, and access control gaps
• Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, and engineering teams to ensure applications satisfy enterprise security, privacy, regulatory, and governance requirements
• Support security reviews and production readiness assessments
• Support cloud deployment and maintenance
• Collaborate with platform engineering teams to ensure applications meet enterprise reliability and operational standards
• Help establish deployment patterns that reduce friction between Product Design and enterprise delivery team
• Collaborate across teams
• Gather feedback, iterate rapidly, and document technical and design decisions
• Support both customer-facing healthcare products and internal software platforms used across DTI and HCA Healthcare
• Drive solutions from discovery through deployment while maintaining alignment with user needs, business goals, and technical constraints

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 8+ years of experience spanning product design, design engineering, frontend engineering, product engineering, or related digital product disciplines required
• Strong experience translating user workflows and product concepts into functional applications preferred
• Demonstrated experience building and deploying production software in enterprise environments preferred
• Strong frontend engineering experience using React, Next.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, and modern web frameworks required
• Experience integrating applications with APIs, databases, authentication providers, cloud services, and enterprise platforms required
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Lovable, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or similar technologies preferred
• Experience supporting cloud deployments, CI/CD workflows, monitoring, testing, and operational readiness required
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture, security reviews, compliance requirements, and production support processes preferred
• Experience working in healthcare, enterprise software, regulated industries, or data-sensitive environments preferred
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences preferred
• Experience taking products from discovery through design, implementation, production deployment, and post-launch iteration preferred

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Hybrid, onsite 3 days/week near Centennial Park