Design Engineer

Comfy•San Francisco, CA

53d

About The Position

We're looking for a Design Engineer — someone who sits at the intersection of design and frontend engineering. You'll pick up a rough idea, shape it in Figma or directly in code, and ship a polished experience end to end. While product engineers focus on features and infrastructure, you'll own the craft layer: the animations, the micro-interactions, the loading states, the typography — the last 10% that never gets cut. Beyond shipping UI, you'll bridge our design and frontend teams — building better tooling, workflows, and helping designers become effective vibe coders so prototypes flow seamlessly into production.

Requirements

You're a frontend engineer with a designer's eye, or a designer who writes production-quality code — either path works. What matters is fluency in both worlds.
You have strong expertise with modern frontend tooling (TypeScript, CI/CD pipelines).
You're proficient in Figma and understand the fundamentals of product design: layout, typography, color, spacing.
You have a strong sense of taste and notice the details others skip.
You're self-directed — you don't wait for a ticket to fix something that's bugging you.
You're excited about AI-assisted workflows and have experimented with agents, LLMs, or vibe coding in your own process.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or contributing to a design system at scale.
Background in motion design or creative coding (Canvas, WebGL, shaders).
A portfolio, blog, or open-source work that demonstrates your craft.

Responsibilities

Own the quality bar for UI. Identify rough edges, propose fixes, and ship improvements — often autonomously, without waiting for a ticket.
Sweat the details: transitions, easing curves, skeleton states, empty states, error states, responsive behavior, accessibility.
Work with designers from concept to production — skip the traditional handoff, iterate together in Figma and code.
Design and build greenfield surfaces end to end — pages, tools, or experiences that may not be core product but still need to feel like part of it.
Own small QoL improvements from idea to production with minimal or no design input. Sketch it, build it, ship it.
Step in as a designer when the team is overloaded — you're comfortable wearing both hats.
Help designers become effective vibe coders. Build workflows so designer-made prototypes are starting points that engineers or AI agents can actually use.
Create systems for prototype-to-production handoff: structure designer-generated code so it can be fed into agents or integrated by the engineering team.
Translate our Figma design system into our component library, keeping the two in sync.
Contribute to and evolve our design system — tokens, components, patterns, documentation.