General Motors
Senior Design Engineer - GM Design System
Austin, Texas, United States of America · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years as a professional Design Engineer or Design Technologist.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a technical or design related field, or work experience commensurate with education.
About the job
Build and scale GM’s enterprise web design system, creating accessible, reusable components and supporting AI-assisted design and development workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain a Stencil-based design system distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components, with React and Angular integration support.
- Translate Figma designs into performant, accessible components; contribute documentation, standards, testing, and CI/CD integration.
- Integrate AI into design system workflows and publish components, tokens, and guidance in machine-readable formats for AI coding tools and agents.
What they ask for
- Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries; strong skills in modern HTML, CSS architecture, vanilla JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of front-end architecture and scaling CSS in enterprise environments.
- Deep knowledge of semantic HTML, WCAG, and ARIA accessibility standards; experience with progressive enhancement and performance optimization.
- Experience with design tokens, Style Dictionary or similar tools; hands-on experience or active experimentation with AI-enabled design systems, LLM context generation, or AI-driven UI workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience building Web Components; experience with React, Angular, or other modern JavaScript frameworks; experience with Stencil.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks such as Jest or Playwright and visual regression tools.
Tools
Stencil, Web Components, React, Angular, Figma, Style Dictionary, Jest, Playwright
AI focus
Integrate AI into component generation, design token mapping, automated documentation, and design system workflows; provide machine-readable content for AI coding tools and agents, including LLM context generation.
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