# Design Engineer

**Company:** [Forus](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/forus)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, webgl, Design Systems, component libraries, sanity, web analytics, web experiments, Accessibility, wcag, Cursor, Claude Code, Motion Design
**Posted:** 2026-08-04

> The Design Engineer will own Forus’s design system, public web presence, and high-craft product experiences while bridging visual design and front-end engineering. The role requires 5+ years spanning both disciplines, strong React/TypeScript skills, and experience with component libraries, accessibility, experiments, and analytics.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the design system, including components, patterns, and standards for product and web surfaces.
- Build the public web presence, including the marketing site and campaign pages.
- Improve in-product surfaces in partnership with product designers and engineers.
- Own interaction, motion, typography, layout, accessibility, and performance fundamentals.
- Define and document AI-native workflows using tools such as Cursor and Claude Code.
- Run web experiments and instrument surfaces so design decisions are grounded in measurable outcomes.
- Partner across product design, engineering, product, and marketing to evolve the system.

## Requirements and Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience spanning design and front-end engineering.
- Strong front-end skills with React, TypeScript, modern HTML and CSS, and WebGL.
- Experience building or significantly evolving a design system or component library at a product company.
- Strong visual and interaction design skills with a portfolio demonstrating the work.
- Comfort building on a CMS; Sanity is preferred.
- Experience running web experiments and managing web analytics.
- Ability to move quickly, find shortcuts, and deliver on ambitious goals.
- High NPS with former teammates.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation with meaningful equity for full-time employees.
- Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
- Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
- Unlimited paid time off and 16 weeks of parental leave.
- 401(k) plan, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
- Lunch at the office every day and dinner after 6:30 p.m.

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