System Designer

System Designer

Define and implement a platform-wide design system across multiple products and tools

Location: Sunnyvale, California

Compensation: $170,000 - 200,000 USD / year

About The Role

System Designer

Applied Intuition, Inc. is powering the future of physical AI. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company's solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo.

We are an in-office company, and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions

About the Role:

We're looking for a System Designer who can bring coherence and structure to complex, multi-surface software experiences across Applied Intuition's product portfolio. As part of Applied Intuition's design team, you will define the interaction frameworks, information architecture, and design systems that let our products scale consistently across tools, platforms, and customer use cases.

• Define and evolve the foundational design language for a platform-level build system.
• Build a platform level design system that supports multiple products and tools, rather than a single application.
• Establish scalable design system assets across design and code.
• Define agent-driven design system patterns, enabling AI agents and coding tools to generate product experiences using approved components, patterns, and system rules.
• Create code-based standards, reusable skills, and implementation guidance that engineers and AI coding tools can use consistently.
• Establish and maintain accessibility standards across components, patterns, and platforms.
• Validate the design system across real products and workflows.
• Support a multi-platform ecosystem across web, in-vehicle interfaces, devices, enterprise tools, and emerging surfaces.
• Define patterns for multiple interaction models, including click, touch, voice, and agent-driven interactions.
• Maintain a high bar for visual design, brand, usability, accessibility, and consistency.
• Create clear documentation for designers, engineers, customers, and AI-assisted development workflows.

We're looking for someone who has:

• 6+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design systems work, ideally on complex B2B, technical, or data-heavy software
• Bachelors degree in engineering or design field
• Strong experience building and scaling platform-level design systems across multiple products or tools.
• Excellent visual and interaction design skills.
• Strong understanding of design system architecture, accessibility, and inclusive design.
• Experience translating design systems into production code, reusable components, and AI-consumable standards.
• Strong systems thinking and ability to design for complex enterprise ecosystems.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering.
• Strong documentation and communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience shipping design system components directly in a production codebase.
• Experience creating AI coding guidelines, skills, rules, or agent-driven design system workflows.
• Experience running research or usability validation.
• Experience designing for automotive, enterprise software, developer tools, or platform products.
• Experience with embedded devices, voice, multimodal, or agent-driven interfaces.

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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