Design Engineer

Forus•New York, NY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Design Engineer at Forus, you will own how our product and public surfaces look, feel, and perform. You think like a designer and build like an engineer, turning ambitious ideas into shipped, high-craft experiences. You will own our design system and the components everything else is built on, translating our design principles into reusable, scalable building blocks that designers and engineers can move quickly with. You will build our public web presence, from the marketing site to campaign pages, with the same rigor we bring to in-product surfaces, and you will define the AI-native workflows the rest of the team adopts. It is a high-leverage, high-context seat: you partner across product design, engineering, product, and marketing, and you drive the evolution of the system yourself rather than waiting for direction. This is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to "act like an owner" and commit yourself to Forus' success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

5+ years of experience spanning both design and front-end engineering, with a track record of clearly operating in both worlds.
Strong, demonstrable front-end skills: React/TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS, WebGL with an eye for interaction and a bias for elegant code.
Experience building or significantly evolving a design system or component library at a product company.
A strong eye for visual and interaction design and a portfolio to show it.
Comfort building on a CMS (Sanity preferred), running web experiments, and managing web analytics.
Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.
High NPS with your former teammates

Responsibilities

Own our design system, including the components, patterns, and standards that every product and web surface is built on, so the whole team can ship high-craft work faster.
Build our public web presence, from the marketing site to campaign pages, with the same rigor and polish we bring to in-product experiences.
Raise the craft bar on in-product surfaces, partnering with designers and product engineers to turn complex clinical and operational workflows into experiences that feel simple and earn trust.
Own interaction, motion, and the fundamentals, treating typography, layout, accessibility (WCAG), and performance as core parts of the system rather than afterthoughts.
Define and share the AI-native workflows we build with, documenting the prompts and patterns you use in tools like Cursor and Claude Code so designers and engineers across the team move faster.
Run web experiments and instrument our surfaces so design decisions are grounded in measurable outcomes.
Partner across product design, engineering, product, and marketing to find where the system needs to evolve, and drive that evolution yourself.