Staff Design Engineer
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Design Engineer at Onebrief turning design vision into high-fidelity experiences for military planning software. Collaborating with teams to enhance operational workflows and build intuitive prototypes.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate closely with designers on core real-time collaboration features such as dashboards, maps, timeline visualizations, and briefing workflows—cornerstones of operational planning in Onebrief.
- Translate mission and user needs into functional, data-driven interactive prototypes that validate workflows and behaviors before development.
- Help evolve Onebrief’s design system, ensuring component durability, performance, and accessibility across verticals. Includes contributions in both Figma and code.
- Extend the system’s tokens, components, and interaction patterns for consistency without slowing delivery.
- Partner with engineers to implement design at scale, balancing fidelity, feasibility, and performance.
- Move rapidly from sketch to prototype to production, using the right fidelity for each stage (Figma or code-adjacent).
- Validate usability through prototypes and tests that prove solutions before development.
- Leverage AI-powered tools (e.g. Figma Make, V0, Cursor, Lovable, etc.) to accelerate prototyping and validate behaviors quickly.
- Ensure shipped features meet accessibility, reliability, and performance standards expected by military users.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience moving ideas through design and into prototypes, ideally with real user impact and usage data.
- Comfortable owning a problem from sketch to spec to shipped UI.
- Experienced with data-dense, highly interactive UIs and the constraints of low connectivity, strict permissions, and audit requirements.
- Experience working with APIs and reasoning about data flows.
- Excellent written communication—async by default. You show your work through flows, prototypes, and specs.
- Eligible for and able to obtain a U.S. security clearance (U.S. citizenship required).
Benefits:
- Equity: Share in the company's success.
- Flexible Work Environment: Remote-first organization with flexible work hours and unlimited PTO.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Retirement Plan: 401(k) plan with company match to secure your future.
- Parental Leave: 8 weeks at 100% regardless of state.
- Company Retreats: Annual company summit trips.
- Home Office Budget: $1,000 per year for home office improvements.



















