Member of Technical Staff (Design Systems)
Perplexity2 months ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$220k - $405k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build reusable core primitives such as overlays, inputs, navigation, and feedback components.
- Develop coherent component APIs for many consuming product surfaces.
- Author, generate, and publish design tokens across web, iOS, Android, macOS, and Windows.
- Translate Figma systems into typed, testable, and documented components in partnership with design.
- Migrate product surfaces from bespoke implementations to shared primitives.
- Build accessible components with keyboard, focus, contrast, and screen-reader support backed by automated coverage.
- Support consuming teams through documentation, visual regression coverage, and an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 4+ years of production frontend engineering experience.
- Experience with a design system, component library, or shared UI platform is a plus.
- Strong React, TypeScript, and CSS skills.
- Working accessibility knowledge, including WCAG, ARIA patterns, and assistive technology.
- Interest in building reusable components.
- Comfort collaborating closely with designers on visual and interaction language.
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About Perplexity
Perplexity builds an AI-powered answer engine for web and mobile and an enterprise product, Perplexity Computer, for AI-driven workflows across tools and apps. The company monetizes through individual subscriptions (Perplexity Pro) and enterprise plans. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it operates as a privately held company.