Senior Design Engineer - GM Design System
General Motors1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a scalable Stencil design system distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components.
- Extend the design system to React and Angular consumers through wrappers and integration support.
- Build semantic, accessible HTML and modular CSS with strong performance, keyboard navigation, focus management, and assistive-technology support.
- Translate Figma designs into production-ready components and collaborate with designers, engineers, and platform teams.
- Create documentation, coding standards, design tokens, and machine-readable usage guidance for people and AI coding tools.
- Integrate components into CI/CD pipelines and support unit, visual regression, and accessibility testing.
- Explore AI-assisted component generation, design-token mapping, automated documentation, and LLM context generation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical or design-related field, or work experience commensurate with education.
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Design Engineer or Design Technologist.
- Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries.
- Strong experience with modern HTML, CSS architecture, vanilla JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Understanding of front-end architecture and enterprise-scale CSS strategies.
- Deep knowledge of semantic HTML, WCAG, and ARIA accessibility standards.
- Experience with progressive enhancement, performance optimization, and design tokens.
- Hands-on experience or active experimentation with AI-enabled design systems, LLM context generation, or AI-driven UI workflows.
- Preferred: experience with Web Components, React, Angular, Stencil, Jest, Playwright, visual regression tools, web design, or design tooling.
Benefits
- GM provides benefits and Total Rewards resources focused on employee well-being at work and at home.
- General Motors offers equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.
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About General Motors
General Motors designs, manufactures, and sells cars, trucks, and electric vehicles for consumers and commercial fleets under brands including Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick. A public company on the NYSE headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1908, it operates globally and is developing EVs on its Ultium battery platform. Revenue comes from vehicle and parts sales, connected services such as OnStar, and financing through GM Financial.