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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Design Engineer - **Company:** Authorium Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $160,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, JIRA, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Interaction Design, Rapid Prototyping Process, Mixpanel, Next.js, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Build Management, Figma, Front End Software Development - **Published:** June 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=af87405cbc914458 ## About the Role Do you have experience in WCAG?, * 2-3 years building digital products where you both designed and implemented the front end portfolios that show shipped work, not just mockups. * Strong front-end engineering: Next.js, modern CSS, and comfort working in a real production codebase. * Strong design craft: interaction design, layout, and a sharp eye for detail in dense, data-heavy interfaces with tables, filters, multi-step flows, role-based views. * Demonstrated fluency with Claude Design (and/or comparable AI design/build tools) used as a serious part of how you ship and please show us examples. * Proficiency in Figma (components, libraries, auto-layout, prototyping). * Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping and you make judgment calls with incomplete information and move between design and code in the same day. * Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA). * Clear communication as you can explain a decision in terms of user outcomes and tradeoffs, not just aesthetics. Nice to Have * Experience with dense, workflow-driven enterprise / B2B products. * Exposure to government, public sector, or other regulated/compliance-driven environments. * Experience with product analytics tools (Pendo, Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar). * Experience integrating AI features into a product UI. ## Description A Design Engineer at Authorium designs and ships. You take an idea from a rough concept to a polished, production interface running in front of real government users, and you work highly independently through that process with a clear feedback loop., Government workflows are complex by nature. Our users manage procurement solicitations, evaluation scoring, contract documents, and compliance reporting and often for the first time on a digital platform. Making dense, high-stakes workflows feel navigable for people who didn't choose the tool and can't easily change their process is our baseline challenge - and an Authorium Design Engineer relishes that challenge and has a desire to live on both the design and engineering side of delivery., * Take features from concept through interaction design, prototyping, and production front-end implementation. You write the code that ships, not just the spec for it. * Build and maintain real interfaces in our codebase (Hotwire / Next.js), partnering with Engineering on architecture, state, and performance. * Use Claude Design and other AI tooling to move fast: rapid prototypes, multiple directions, working components and bring strong judgment about which output is actually good. Shape the product surface * Improve UX across the platform from intake, approvals, document generation, evaluations, configuration, and reporting including fixing inconsistencies and usability gaps as you go. * Contribute to the design system: components, patterns, and libraries that keep the product coherent and speed up everyone's delivery. You'll both use it and extend it in code. * Help shape how AI shows up in the product with making AuthorAI feel context-aware and trustworthy for users across every level of AI comfort. Ship with quality * Design and build for accessibility and compliance from the start (WCAG 2.1 AA) - our government customers require it. * Review your work against design intent through delivery and hold the bar on fidelity and polish. * Work in sprints; manage your work in Jira and participate in planning and grooming. Collaborate * Partner with PMs to frame problems and make scope tradeoffs, and with Engineering on feasibility and front-end quality. * Talk to users: lightweight usability checks, observing real workflows, and turning what you learn into better interfaces. ## Related Videos - [Design Systems for the Machines - How to Make AI Understand Your UI](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100019-design-systems-for-the-machines-how-to-make-ai-understand-your-ui) - [Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1768-boost-productivity-with-ai-figma-playwright-mcp-workflows-aris-markogiannakis) - [GraphQL + Apollo + Next.js: A Lovely Trio](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/311-graphql-apollo-next-js-a-lovely-trio) - [Collaboration Quantified: Lessons from Open Source Developer Networks](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1422-collaboration-quantified-lessons-from-open-source-developer-networks) - [Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/982-fireside-chat-with-kris-rasmussen-cto-at-figma) - [Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1447-designing-the-future-of-human-agent-collaboration) ## Related Articles - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 133 - Back to Front](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/474-dev-digest-133-back-to-front) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 132 - Binging WADFlix?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/473-dev-digest-132-binging-wadflix) - [Dev Digest 129 - Now that's what I call private data!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/468-dev-digest-129-now-that-s-what-i-call-private-data) - [Dev Digest 139 - Soft and hard queries](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/487-dev-digest-139-soft-and-hard-queries)