# Senior Product Design Engineer

**Company:** [DuckDuckGo](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/duckduckgo)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $179k – $179k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Design Engineering, Prototyping, Semantic Html, Web Accessibility, Motion Design, Interaction Design, Design Systems, Design Tokens, JavaScript, Code Review, User Research, Experimentation, Quantitative Analysis
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Design-first senior engineer who prototypes and implements product experiences in code, partners closely with front-end engineers, and maintains high design-system quality across products used by millions. Requires 7+ years in product design or design engineering and strong skills in accessibility, interaction, motion, research, and experimentation.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead design engineering projects across DuckDuckGo products, including Duck.ai, native apps, and search.
- Prototype, specify, and implement product designs directly in code to ensure high-quality execution.
- Partner with front-end engineers as a peer, including contributing code and participating in pull-request reviews.
- Identify ambiguous problems, propose high-impact solutions, and independently lead projects from ideation through release.
- Develop tools and workflows that accelerate design and engineering while maintaining design-system quality and consistency.
- Improve products through concept exploration, experimentation, and research.
- Define project goals, rationale, success metrics, and creative briefs.
- Instrument work and use qualitative and quantitative data to guide decisions.
- Help shape the design engineering discipline and role.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in product design and/or design engineering, including 2+ years in senior-level design positions at significant global consumer brands.
- Strong ability to communicate visual and interaction recommendations through mockups, prototypes, and rationale.
- Comfortable collaborating with engineers as a peer, reasoning through decisions in pull-request reviews, and contributing production code.
- Ability to prototype to production standard using semantic markup and accessibility best practices.
- Fluency in motion and interaction implementation, including easing curves, spring physics, and interruptible transitions.
- Experience structuring design systems with token layering, primitive and semantic naming, and parity between design source and code.
- Strong project management skills across proposal, execution, and release.
- Ability to apply agentic solutions to project management and design execution workflows.
- Experience writing creative briefs and defining success metrics.
- Proficiency in research, experimentation, and measurement.
- Ability to take initiative, work with urgency and discretion, and collaborate transparently.

## Compensation and Benefits
- **$178,500 USD annually**.
- Stock options.
- Team-member support including paid parental leave, office setup, and co-working allowances.
- Company-sponsored health benefits are limited to team members based in the United States.
- Flexible work arrangement with no core hours and an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
- Team members are expected to attend an all-hands meetup and team retreat at least twice per year.

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