Senior Design Engineer

GitHub, Inc.

9h • Remote

About The Position

At GitHub, we are passionate about creating innovative solutions that enhance the developer experience for millions of people worldwide. As a Senior Design Engineer, you’ll work closely with designers, product managers, and engineers to shape the next generation of developer tools. Join us at this exciting time in our company’s journey, where your contributions will be essential in elevating our core experiences and driving GitHub toward a bold future! As a Senior Design Engineer at GitHub, you’ll focus on shaping and exploring UX patterns, pushing what’s possible with an AI. You’ll work hands-on with design primitives and open source systems, prototyping new concepts and experimenting with emerging front-end technologies. Collaborating closely with systems designers, engineers, and product managers, you’ll help build, iterate, and refine high-quality user experiences. Your curiosity and creativity drive you to explore new solutions, contribute to open source, and elevate design standards as you help define the future of GitHub’s products. Design Engineers at GitHub are expert individual contributors; they're given a lot of autonomy and trust to work on our most impactful design projects. For this specific role, you will report directly to the Senior Director, Core UX Design.

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in product or service design,
• OR bachelor's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND 5+ years' experience in product or service design,
• OR master's degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND3+ years' experience in product or service design,
• OR doctorate in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, or related field AND1+ year(s) experience in product or service design,
• OR equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of experience shipping products and/or delivering to customers as a result of an end-to-end design process
• Knowledge of typical data center designs/architectures and be following industry design trends
• Experience with performing complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and present the justification to management in a high-level review
• Engineering experience working in modern web development (e.g., React, CSS, HTML, JavaScript methodologies, etc.)
• Experience with WCAG compliance and/or implementing accessibility best practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration & Planning: Work with your team and partners to estimate schedules, set priorities, and support product planning for ongoing projects.
• Problem-Solving & Synthesis: Generate and iterate solutions for moderately complex product challenges by synthesizing user needs and business insights to improve product design.
• Exploration & Prototyping: Rapidly explore and prototype interactive concepts, especially around emerging UX patterns and AI-ready design languages, moving fast to test ideas and learn what works. Experiment with design primitives and open source systems.
• Front-End Craft & Adaptability: Deliver front-end experiences with a focus on quality and detail, adapting quickly to new technologies and approaches—even when all the answers aren’t clear.
• Systems & Architecture: Support evolving and scaling design systems, contribute to robust information architecture, and help advance open source initiatives.
• Design Systems Integration: Integrate and use design system components to deliver product consistency and alignment with company standards.
• Communication: Collaborate and communicate clearly with cross-disciplinary teams throughout ideation, design, and development for inclusive and well-understood messaging.
• Accessibility & Craft: Deliver accessible, high-quality visual and interaction designs from concept to completion, ensuring assets, flows, and animations support GitHub’s brand and principles.
• Brand & Experience: Build and refine interactive experiences that fully reflect GitHub’s brand vision.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees