Senior Design Engineer - GM Design System

General Motors is hiring a Senior Design Engineer to evolve and scale an enterprise design system for the web. The role involves collaborating with designers, engineers, and platform teams to build accessible, performant, and reusable components for multiple products and platforms. The role also involves contributing to processes, tools, and standards to support design excellence at scale and establishing patterns and infrastructure for AI-assisted design and development workflows.

• Develop and maintain a scalable design system authored in Stencil and distributed as framework-agnostic Web Components
• Extend the system to React and Angular consumers through framework wrappers and integration support
• Write semantic, accessible HTML aligned with WCAG and WAI-ARIA best practices, including keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen reader support
• Ensure consistent behavior across browsers, devices, and assistive technologies
• Build modular, maintainable CSS for large-scale applications
• Build flexible, reusable components with a focus on performance, accessibility, and self-documentation
• Translate Figma designs into production-ready code, collaborating closely with designers
• Contribute to design system documentation and to the coding standards and best practices

• A bachelor's degree in a technical or design related field, or work experience commensurate with education
• 5+ years of experience working as a professional Design Engineer or Design Technologist
• Experience building or contributing to design systems or UI libraries
• Strong experience with modern HTML, modern CSS architecture, vanilla JavaScript, and Type Script
• Solid understanding of front-end architecture and strategies for 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