Senior Product Designer, Design Systems Costa Mesa , Anduril Industries - Governance Accessibility

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that seeks to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The centralized Software Product Design Research team is hiring a Product Designer for the Design Systems team to design and iterate on Matter, Anduril’s design system, and contribute to products that support highly technical and complex scenarios. The role involves working alongside designers, researchers, and engineers, and will have immediate impact on real-world operations by designing interactions that explore human-to-machine control.

• Design and iterate upon Matter, Anduril’s design system across primitives, tokens, components, patterns, and guidelines.
• Establish governance practices and frameworks that balance platform scaling with program-specific needs.
• Manage Matter implementation and drive alignment by communicating system strategy, priorities, and progress to leadership, designers, and engineers.
• Partner across teams to identify gaps and design scalable solutions that maximize adoption and consistency.
• Unify the visual and interaction direction for Anduril software across web, mobile, XR, and emerging platforms.
• Ensure the system embodies quality, craft, and accessibility while grounded in operational realities.
• Manage transitions from deprecated patterns or tooling, ensuring smooth migration for teams.
• Mentor other designers, model high craft, and drive organizational alignment around system best practices.

• 5+ years in product design, with significant time building and leading design systems at scale.
• Proven impact shaping end-to-end systems (not just UI kits), with portfolio evidence of product integration and measurable outcomes.
• Deep expertise in Figma (libraries, variables, component architecture, branching) and comfort collaborating through implementation.
• Track record of aligning multiple teams and driving adoption in complex, distributed environments.
• Ability to define system strategy while delivering tangible improvements to software craft and consistency.
• Portfolio demonstrating high attention to craft and interaction details.
• No prior defense experience necessary – we are looking for designers who can bring diverse perspectives to hard problems.