Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Figma library for Waypoint: component structure, variants, properties, and documentation, so it stays a reliable source of truth for design teams.
• Build and maintain core Waypoint components, contributing directly to our component packages alongside the design engineering team.
• Work across our token pipeline, keeping design tokens in Figma and their code representations (CSS custom properties, Tailwind config) tightly synced.
• Partner with product designers to translate new patterns into system components, and with product engineers to make sure those components are easy to adopt correctly.
• Help define and refine the workflows and tooling that connect Figma and code (sync scripts, plugins, documentation sites) rather than relying on manual handoff.
• Write clear documentation and usage guidance so the system scales without you being the bottleneck.
• Weigh in on system architecture decisions: when to add a new component versus extend an existing one, how to version and package changes, how to keep the system consistent as it grows.
• Help shape how Waypoint evolves to serve a third consumer beyond designers and engineers: the model itself. That means thinking about how components, tokens, and patterns get structured so they're legible to AI systems, not just to humans.

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