# Design Engineer

**Company:** [EliseAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/eliseai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Figma, Design Systems, ui/ux, Accessibility, gsap, three.js, webgl
**Posted:** 2026-04-10

> First Frontend/Design Engineer at EliseAI, owning end-to-end user experience, design system implementation, and translating Figma designs into pixel-perfect React interfaces with strong focus on interactions, consistency, and usability. Requires 2+ years React/TS experience, Figma proficiency, and onsite work in NYC.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Partner closely with design, product, and engineering to develop, maintain, and evolve our design system, ensuring aesthetic cohesion and a scalable front-end architecture.
- Collaborate with PMs and engineers to align on requirements, feasibility, and sequencing, helping shape how features are built from concept through launch.
- Document patterns, promote consistency, and drive adoption of shared systems across teams.
- Own and define our process and approach to frontend development as the first design engineer, acting as a bridge between design intent and production code.
- Translate Figma designs into pixel-perfect, accessible, and performant interfaces with a focus on visual consistency and high-quality user experience.
- Design and implement thoughtful UI interactions and micro-interactions that enhance clarity, feedback, and usability across the product.
- Bring high-quality interaction patterns to life, including transitions, states, and responsive behaviors that make the interface feel polished and intuitive.
- Work closely with engineering to ensure components ship with the intended fidelity, reducing visual regressions and post-launch polish work.
- Refactor existing surfaces to implement the design system, improve usability, and unify the visual language across the product and marketing site.

## Requirements
- 2+ years of Javascript, Typescript, and React experience.
- Startup mindset with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and pragmatism.
- Experience in a fast-paced and frequent code deployment environment.
- Strong understanding of interaction patterns, responsive layout systems, accessibility, usability principles, and visual design best practices.
- Proficient in Figma.
- Up-to-date on modern tools and developer workflows (Cursor, Vercel, etc.).
- Ability to solve complex problems independently with minimal guidance.
- Willingness to work in person at our office 4-5 days a week.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with advanced web animations and complex visual effects (three.js, webGL, anime.js, GSAP, etc.).
- Experience with mobile design systems.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $170,000 - $200,000 base.
- Equity in the company.
- Medical, Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%.
- Fully paid parental leave.
- Commuter benefits.
- 401k benefits.
- Fitness & home services stipend.
- Unlimited vacation and paid holidays.
- Relocation packages.

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