Design Engineer, Web/Brand at Livekit

The role

LiveKit is seeking a Design Engineer to lead and evolve its Design System within the Design organization, partnering closely with Product Engineering. This role involves owning the primitives that power the product UI, including components, tokens, and accessibility standards. The goal is to ensure LiveKit’s product experience is cohesive, high-quality, and built to scale.

What you'll do

• Own the roadmap for LiveKit’s design system, including components and interaction patterns.
• Define and maintain standards for component quality, accessibility, and usability.
• Architect and implement robust, accessible, production-grade UI components.
• Maintain design tokens, theming infrastructure, and shared foundations.
• Partner deeply with designers and engineers to improve visual polish and consistency.
• Help shape how AI tools and models consume LiveKit’s design system.

What you'll bring

• 7+ years of experience in front-end engineering or design engineering.
• Strong design taste with deep care for layout, motion, and visual polish.
• Expertise in TypeScript, React, Tailwind, and accessibility best practices.
• Experience building or maintaining design systems, including components and tooling.
• A portfolio demonstrating UI engineering craft, component thinking, and prototyping ability.

Your impact

This role will ensure LiveKit's product experience is cohesive, high-quality, and scalable by leading the design system. The Design Engineer will raise the UI bar across all product surfaces, helping teams adopt systematic patterns and advocating for best practices. A key impact will also be making the design system AI-native, enabling models to build with its primitives.