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About the Role
We're hiring a Design Engineer to help shape the next generation of developer tools used by 200+ million developers around the world. Design Engineers live at the intersection of design, engineering, and product strategy, combining strong technical depth, sharp design sensibility, and the ability to move ideas into production quickly. In this role, you'll work hands-on with design primitives, open source systems, and emerging front-end technologies. Collaborating closely with designers, engineers, and product managers, you'll prototype, build, iterate, and refine experiences that millions of developers rely on. You'll bring curiosity, strong opinions on quality, and the range to take work from concept through ship. Design Engineers at GitHub are expert individual contributors with a lot of autonomy and trust. We're looking for someone who builds as a way of thinking — someone who sketches ideas in code, navigates ambiguity with confidence, and drives clarity across teams. This role is ideal for builders excited to elevate how design engineering shapes GitHub and help define the future of developer experience at scale.
Responsibilities
- Deliver front-end experiences with a focus on quality and detail, adapting quickly to new technologies and approaches.
- Rapidly explore and prototype interactive concepts, especially around emerging UX patterns and AI-ready design languages.
- Support evolving and scaling design systems, contribute to robust information architecture, and help advance open source initiatives.
- Integrate and use design system components to deliver product consistency and alignment with company standards.
- Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-disciplinary teams throughout ideation, design, and development.
- Deliver accessible, high-quality visual and interaction designs from concept to completion.
- Define great products and developer experiences with a point of view.
- Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision.
- Keep making decisions and move forward quickly, prioritizing progress over correctness.
- Remain curious and comfortable learning about existing and upcoming new capabilities to identify opportunities.
- Bridge the gap and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to build high-quality, scalable, and interactive components.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 5+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 3+ years experience in front-end engineering or development OR Doctorate in a related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in front-end engineering or development OR equivalent experience.
- Fluency with modern front-end technologies and design/prototyping tools like Figma; experience working directly in codebases and working with AI-powered design and development tools and workflows.
- Hands-on engineering experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript/TypeScript) and design systems.
- Comfort with a hybrid working model, including regular presence in the GitHub San Francisco office to support team collaboration and connection.
- Experience building AI and agentic experiences.
- Experience working with Engineers, Product Managers, and other Designers applying UX principles, and a user-centric approach.
- Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices.
- Experience building products for developer tools.
Skills
- React
- CSS
- HTML
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Figma
- AI-powered design and development tools
- Design systems
- WCAG compliance
- Accessibility best practices
Location
- San Francisco, California United States
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years
- 5+ years
- 3+ years
- 1+ year
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
- Doctorate
Salary/Compensations
- USD $177,200.00 - USD $329,200.00 /Yr
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Stock
- Sales incentives
- Competitive pay
- Generous learning and growth opportunities
- Excellent benefits
About the Company
- GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software.
- Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
- GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting.
- We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA).
- Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.
- Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!).
- At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work.
- We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.
- Join us, and let’s change the world, together.
Equal Opportunity
- GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life.
- We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences.
- Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!