Design System Engineer

Description

Mature and promote the Air Design throughout the organization

Imagine opportunities and proactively seize them to continually raise the maturity, awareness, and adoption of our design system across the business. This includes expanding the scope of the platforms we support, educating teams about Airs value and integration, and ensuring the infrastructure is usable, accessible, and secure.

Build the foundation for an AI-native design system

Help define how Air should work in an AI-native world, where interfaces are increasingly conversational, agentic, and adaptive. Translate Air's design principles, development standards, and product knowledge into systems that live in both design and code. Evolve our tokens, component library, documentation, and guidelines into foundational infrastructure that designers, engineers, AI coding tools, and AI agents can reliably build on.

Own the bridge between design and code

Build systems that connect Figma to production and keep design and code evolving together. Work directly in the codebase to build reusable, accessible, flexible, and performant components across React, React Native, and Qt/QML. Contribute production code and PRs, review implementations, improve component APIs and architecture, and help product teams adopt Air without sacrificing quality or consistency.

Build the tools and workflows that make teams faster

Build the workflows, tools, and infrastructure that allow designers and product teams to prototype at high fidelity using real components, working code, and interactive states to close traditional efficiency gaps between Design & Engineering. Explore and implement AI-powered tooling, MCP integrations, Figma plugins, automation, and design-to-code workflows that improve how the business designs, builds, documents, and maintains products.

Set and raise the craft bar

Establish what great looks like through the quality of what you build and ship. Champion accessibility, visual quality, interaction quality, and consistency across Air. Help improve standards around component APIs, tokens, naming, documentation, versioning, and adoption while partnering across Design and Engineering to continuously raise the quality of products.

What success looks like

Air becomes a reliable foundation for both people and AI designers, engineers, and AI tools can discover, understand, and use the system confidently.

Design and code stay closely aligned components, tokens, and patterns evolve together, reducing the gap between what's designed and what ships.

Teams move faster without sacrificing quality designers can prototype with real components and engineers spend less time on UI rework and one-off solutions.

Design-to-development workflows become increasingly automated and intelligent AI, MCP, and plugins reduce friction and preserve design intent throughout the process.

Air scales beyond the Design System team product teams can confidently adopt, extend, and contribute to the system with less dependency on centralized support.

Air raises the quality of products experiences are cohesive, accessible, expressive, and thoughtfully crafted across platforms.

Qualifications

4-6 years in design engineering or UX engineering experience, preferably in B2B, enterprise, SaaS, or technical product environments

Deep fluency in Figma and how modern design teams build and maintain systems with variables, auto layout, prototyping, dev mode, and Code Connect

Strong proficiency with React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, with a deep understanding of component architecture and reusable UI systems.

Strong understanding of accessible component design and development, including WCAG, semantic HTML, keyboard interaction, focus management, and ARIA patterns.

Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations, and what's emerging in this space

Experience with modern design and development tooling (e.g. Storybook, AI coding tools, Git, and component documentation platforms).

A track record of working across design and engineering: you engage in design discussions, you care deeply about design intent, and you champion getting intent translated into production

Comfortable operating with high autonomy: you set direction, influence standards, and manage complex projects without a lot of hand-holding

Strong design sensibility: you care about craft, consistency and coherence

Bonus points

Familiarity with Material UI (MUI), including component architecture, theming, and customization

Hands-on experience with React required; experience with React Native and/or QT/QML is a strong plus

Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz

Experience designing or building data visualizations

Experience with embedded or hardware-constrained UI development

Experience with visual regression testing, automated a11y testing, or CI/CD pipelines for component libraries

Skills

figma, Ui development

Top Skills Details

figma

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Figma, Design Systems.

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $65.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract position based out of Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 17, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

About TEKsystems

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

Were a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. Were a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. Were strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. Were building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.