Member of Technical Staff (Design Systems)
About The Position
Perplexity is looking for a frontend engineer to build the design system behind every Perplexity product. This includes the component library and design language shared across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows. The role involves creating primitives, tokens, and interaction patterns that all product teams will build upon. The users of this system are internal, including product teams and a wide range of contributors across the company. The components developed will form the foundation for all products. The engineer will develop component APIs that are robust across numerous surfaces and easy for other teams to adopt, contribute to the token pipeline for visual consistency across five platforms, and uphold high standards for interaction quality and accessibility.
Requirements
- 4+ years building production frontend
- Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus
- Interest in building reusable components
- Strong React and TypeScript, and CSS
- Working accessibility knowledge (WCAG, ARIA patterns, assistive tech)
- Comfort collaborating closely with designers on the visual and interaction language
Responsibilities
- Design and build core primitives – overlays, inputs, navigation, feedback – with APIs that stay coherent as consumers multiply
- Work across the design-token pipeline – authoring, generation, and per-platform publishing across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows
- Partner directly with design on the design language itself, translating Figma systems into typed, testable, documented components
- Migrate product surfaces off bespoke implementations onto shared primitives without breaking them
- Build accessible components by default – keyboard, focus, contrast, screen readers – backed by automated coverage
- Support consuming teams through docs, visual regression coverage, and on-call rotation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
