General Motors is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to help evolve and scale its enterprise design system for the web. The role collaborates with designers, engineers, and platform teams to build accessible, performant, reusable components powering consistent experiences across products and platforms.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain a scalable design system authored in Stencil and distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components
- Extend the system to React and Angular consumers through framework wrappers and integration support
- Write semantic, accessible HTML aligned with WCAG and WAI-ARIA best practices
- Ensure consistent behavior across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies
- Build modular, maintainable CSS for large-scale applications
- Build flexible, reusable components focused on performance, accessibility, and self-documentation
- Translate Figma designs into production-ready code, collaborating with designers
- Contribute to design system documentation and coding standards and best practices
- Work with engineering teams to integrate components into CI/CD pipelines
- Support robust testing including unit, visual regression, and accessibility testing
- Explore and integrate AI capabilities into design system workflows
- Streamline component generation, design token mapping, and automated documentation
- Make the design system consumable by AI coding tools and agents
- Publish components, tokens, and usage guidelines in machine-readable formats with Storybook
What we're looking for
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or design related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years experience as a professional Design Engineer or Design Technologist
- Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries
- Strong experience with modern HTML, modern CSS architecture, vanilla JavaScript, and TypeScript
- Solid understanding of front-end architecture and strategies for scaling CSS in enterprise environments
- Deep knowledge of semantic HTML, WCAG, and ARIA accessibility standards
- Experience with progressive enhancement and performance optimization
- Experience with design tokens, Style Dictionary, or similar tools
- Hands-on experience or active experimentation with AI-enabled design systems, LLM context generation, or AI-driven UI workflows
Nice to have
- Experience building Web Components
- Experience with React, Angular, or other modern JavaScript frameworks
- Experience building with Stencil
- Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Playwright) and visual regression tools
- Curiosity for emerging front-end techniques and passion for continuous learning
- Background in web design, design tooling, or collaborating heavily with design teams
