Design Systems Engineer at Ambrook
New York, NY
$115,000–$280,000
Jul 21, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on owning a production design system — building and evolving a component library, design tokens, and interaction patterns across web and mobile, while driving adoption throughout the broader engineering team. The work spans frontend infrastructure, performance, accessibility, and migration tooling, including the use of coding agents to accelerate large-scale codebase changes. It suits an experienced frontend engineer with hands-on design system ownership in their background.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 136,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 81,500–203,500
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
No office location is specified in the posting; the role appears to be remote-first given the absence of any location requirement.
The title carries no seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the requirements (owning a design system in production, driving migrations at scale, deep frontend engineering chops) clearly support a Senior-level role.
Figma is mentioned only in passing as a contrast ('more time in the codebase than in Figma'), indicating familiarity is a nice-to-have rather than a hard gate.
The posting emphasizes use of 'coding agents' and AI-assisted workflows as part of day-to-day work, but names no specific AI tooling product — no concrete tool name to capture as a skill.
No compensation range is disclosed.
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