Senior Product Design Engineer

Working on the Design Functional Team, this role is design-first, leveraging your product design expertise and obsession with craft to help maintain quality across DuckDuckGo's products, including Duck.ai, native apps, search and related projects.

At DuckDuckGo, Design owns quality end to end, and your engineering skills close the gap between the design that's intended and the product that ships. You're fluent enough in code to prototype, spec precisely, and partner with engineers as a peer, working directly in the codebase to make sure execution clears the bar you set. As the 2nd Design Engineer, you'll have real leadership opportunities to shape the role and discipline.

As a Senior Product Design Engineer, you'll collaborate across levels to solve problems in current products and pioneer new ones as the team builds the privacy layer for the Internet, autonomously leading high-impact projects at scale from ideation to execution.

• 7+ years in product design roles, including 2+ years senior-level at significant global consumer brands
• Pushes creative limits on hard design problems, delivering delight, craft, and exceptional quality
• Communicates visual and interaction recommendations through high-quality mockups, rationale, prototypes, and specific motion variables
• Partners with engineers as a peer — reasoning about decisions in PR reviews, contributing code where it raises design quality
• Prototypes in code to a production standard, with an understanding of semantic markup and accessibility, leveraging but not relying on AI
• Experience structuring a design system beyond component inventory: token layering, primitive vs. semantic naming, design-to-code parity
• Proficient in research and experimentation, using both qualitative and quantitative data, comfortable instrumenting your own work
• Experience participating in multiple areas of the product process including prioritization, strategy, and user testing
• Takes initiative — generates ideas and carries them forward with urgency and discretion
• Experience defining requirements and building tools that accelerate design and engineering workflows while retaining design system quality and consistency