Design Engineer

Posted 8 Days Ago
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2 Locations
Hybrid
179K-250K Hourly
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software
The Role
Build and maintain a production component library and design system: translate Figma designs into reusable, accessible React+TypeScript components, establish consistent design patterns, prototype reference implementations, and ensure accessibility, performance, versioning, and developer ergonomics across the platform.
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About Tessera Labs

Tessera Labs is redefining how enterprises adopt and operationalize Artificial Intelligence. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Foundation Capital, and built by leaders from Meta AI, Google Research, Microsoft AI, SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce, we build multi-agent AI systems that automate complex business workflows across platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Snowflake, and MuleSoft.

Our mission is to bring real AI automation to the enterprise; delivering speed, precision, and measurable impact. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI. Our ethos in one line: enterprise serious, AI forward.

We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Foundation Capital, and built by leaders from Meta AI, Google Research, Microsoft AI, SAP, Oracle, and Salesforce. We move fast, operate with extreme ownership, and build at the frontier of applied AI. Our ethos in one line: enterprise serious, AI forward.

About the role

We're hiring a Design Engineer to own the connective tissue between design and engineering on the Tessera Mosaic platform. You'll be the person who turns design into living, production code — building and maintaining our common component library, keeping our design patterns coherent, and making sure both keep pace with a platform that's growing fast.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership IC role for someone who is equally comfortable in Figma and in a codebase. You'll spend your time designing reusable components, implementing them in front-end code, and raising the consistency and quality bar across every surface. You won't just document the design system — you'll build it, ship it, and evolve it. You'll partner directly with designers, product, and engineering, and as the platform expands, you'll have real influence over how our UI is architected.

What you'll do
  • Own, build, and maintain our common component library.esign reusable, accessible, well-documented components and implement them in production front-end code.

  • Establish and uphold design patterns across the platform: define conventions, keep them consistent across products and surfaces, and evolve them as needs change.

  • Keep the system ahead of the platform's growth. Anticipate new patterns, refactor and extend components, and prevent drift and one-off implementations as the product expands.

  • Bridge design and engineering: translate high-fidelity designs into faithful, performant, reusable UI, and feed real implementation constraints back into the design process.

  • Build prototypes and reference implementations that show how new patterns should look and behave in code, not just in mockups.

  • Partner with product designers, PMs, and engineers to align on vision, ensure technical feasibility, and ship at a high quality bar.

  • Champion accessibility, performance, and consistency as first-class properties of the system.

  • Maintain the system's health over time: versioning, documentation, migration paths, and developer ergonomics so the rest of engineering can move fast on top of it.

What we're looking for
  • 4+ years working at the intersection of design and front-end engineering (design engineer, UX engineer, design systems engineer, or a front-end engineer with strong design sensibility).

  • Strong front-end engineering skills:production experience with React and TypeScript, modern CSS, and component-driven architecture.

  • Demonstrated experience building and maintaining a component library or design system that real teams shipped on top of.

  • A strong eye for interaction and visual detail: you can design a component, not just implement someone else's spec.

  • Deep care for accessibility, performance, and cross-surface consistency.

  • Fluency in Figma and an understanding of how design tools and code should stay in sync.

  • Systems-level thinking:you design and build for reuse and scale, not one-off screens.

  • Excellent communication and a collaborative, proactive mindset; comfortable owning an area end to end.

Nice to have
  • Experience with design-system tooling (Storybook, tokens, automated visual/regression testing, monorepo setups).

  • Experience designing or building for AI-native, agentic, or data-intensive products.

  • Familiarity with ERP, CRM, HCM, or other systems of record.

  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.

  • Experience prototyping AI-assisted tools (e.g., Cursor or similar).

Why Tessera Labs
  • Own the component library and design patterns at the foundation of an entire enterprise AI platform.

  • Work at the intersection of design, front-end engineering, AI, and ERP systems.

  • High ownership, high impact, and direct influence on how our product is built.

  • Collaborate with a deeply technical and customer-focused team.

No third party may recruit, solicit candidates, publish job opportunities, use Tessera Labs’ name or branding, or represent that they are acting on behalf of Tessera Labs without prior written authorization. Any such activity conducted without explicit written consent is strictly prohibited.

Skills Required

  • 4+ years working at the intersection of design and front-end engineering
  • Production experience with React
  • Production experience with TypeScript
  • Modern CSS and component-driven architecture experience
  • Experience building and maintaining a component library or design system used in production
  • Strong eye for interaction and visual detail (design as well as implementation)
  • Deep care for accessibility, performance, and cross-surface consistency
  • Fluency in Figma and keeping design tools in sync with code
  • Systems-level thinking for reuse and scale
  • Excellent communication and collaborative, proactive mindset
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The Company
HQ: San Jose, California
48 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

Enterprise transformations shouldn't take years or cost fortunes. At Tessera, we've built a multi-agent AI platform that cuts ERP transformation timelines from years to weeks and reduces costs by more than half—while delivering first-time-right outcomes with enterprise-grade security and governance. We combine the dependability of a trusted integrator with the speed of an AI innovator. Our vendor-agnostic platform is pre-trained on thousands of enterprise landscapes and hundreds of years of expertise, so it adapts to your environment from day one—harmonizing systems and data to deliver secure, governed execution across ERP and other critical systems. Unlike traditional system integrators, ERP vendor tools, AI point solutions, or in-house builds, Tessera delivers transformations that compress timelines by 90%, replace people-heavy manual work with intelligent automation, ensure systems and data harmonize correctly from the start, and avoid vendor lock-in through adaptive intelligence that evolves with your workflows. Tessera creates lasting change in how your processes and systems operate together. As the platform adapts to your environment and evolves with new data, you gain the confidence to modernize with less risk—freeing up resources to reinvest in growth rather than maintaining legacy complexity. Proven in regulated industries. Built for enterprise reality. Reshaping how organizations transform.

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