Staff Design Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build the infrastructure for an AI-native design practice: a token system, component library, documentation, and guidelines that AI agents and AI coding tools can reliably build on
• ▹Sit within the product design team, collaborating on reimagining Mixpanel for a conversational, agentic, adaptive AI-native world
• ▹Own the bridge between design and code: define what "shippable" looks like as AI writes more of the code
• ▹Work directly in the codebase and ship PRs that improve the product
• ▹Stand up prototyping and AI tooling infrastructure that lets designers and PMs prototype at high fidelity with working code, without waiting on engineering
• ▹Set and model the craft bar through the quality of what you ship

Requirements

• ▹Proficiency in modern front-end frameworks: React, TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Next.js
• ▹Experience with design systems, ideally built or overhauled at scale
• ▹Strong design sensibility: craft, consistency, interaction quality, taste
• ▹Fluency in AI-assisted workflows: canvas-to-code, code-to-canvas, AI prototyping tools, MCP integrations
• ▹Experience with tools like Figma, Storybook, VSCode, Chromatic, and GitHub
• ▹A track record of working across both design and engineering
• ▹Comfortable operating with high autonomy: setting direction, influencing standards, managing complex projects without much hand-holding
• ▹8+ years in design engineering, UX engineering, design technology, or a related hybrid role

Nice to have

• ▹Experience designing or building data visualizations
• ▹Background in brand and/or product design
• ▹Experience with accessibility: WCAG 2.2, ARIA patterns, semantic HTML, APCA, accessible data viz
• ▹Experience working in a product analytics or developer-focused product environment

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental care
• ▹Mental wellness benefit
• ▹Generous vacation policy and additional company holidays
• ▹Enhanced parental leave
• ▹Volunteer time off
• ▹Pre-tax benefits (401(k)), wellness benefit, holiday break
• ▹Equity consideration

About the company

Mixpanel builds a product and web analytics platform trusted by more than 29,000 companies, including Workday, Pinterest, LG, and Rakuten Viber, with AI-first analytics, session replay, experimentation, and feature flags.