Glean Design Engineer at Glean responsible for building polished product experiences and evolving the AI-forward design system. Role involves partnering with design and engineering teams to deliver world-class UI across platforms.
Responsibilities
Glean is seeking a Design Engineer to join our core product engineering team. You'll sit at the intersection of product design and frontend engineering, owning the craft and polish of the Glean experience end to end. This is a rare role: beyond hands-on UI work, you'll build an AI-forward design system — encoding our design language as rules, components, and agent-consumable skills so that every engineer (and every coding agent) at Glean ships products that look and feel world-class. You'll partner closely with our design team while reporting into engineering.
Design and build polished, high-craft product experiences across Glean's web, desktop, and mobile apps — from micro-interactions and motion to full feature surfaces
Evolve Glean's design system: components, tokens, usage rules, and documentation
Make our design system AI-ready — author the rules, linting, and guidelines that let AI coding agents correctly use design-system components and follow best practices
Build a "product design skill" for coding agents, encoding Glean's design judgment so quality scales with every engineer shipping product
Set the bar for frontend craft on the team through prototypes, code review, and hands-on collaboration with designers and engineers
Rapidly prototype interaction and motion concepts to resolve design questions in code rather than specs
Qualification
Expert in modern web UIExcited about AI-assisted developmentSelf-directed
Required
5+ years of experience spanning product design and frontend engineering (or exceptional depth in one with strong fluency in the other)
Expert in modern web UI: TypeScript, React, CSS; strong instincts for motion, interaction detail, and accessibility
Experience building or maintaining a design system at scale — components, tokens, governance, and adoption
Excited about AI-assisted development; you've used coding agents and have opinions on how to make them produce high-quality UI
A portfolio demonstrating exceptional visual and interaction craft
Self-directed: you identify polish gaps and fix them without waiting for a spec
This role is hybrid (4 days a week in either our San Francisco or Mountain View office)
