Senior AI Design Engineer

Job-ID: adaa0161-cd93-47d0-aaf3-bd6eabc61a6cReference: daeaab09-f43c-4b75-ba29-e0e18b262f70Team: Product DesignLocation: United Kingdom, Israel, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, EstoniaSalary: $72,000
- $135,000 USDEmployment type: Full-timePosted: 2026-09-15Who we are is what we do. Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Among the largest globally distributed companies in the world, our team of 7,000 spans more than 100 countries, speaks 74 languages, and brings a connected and dynamic culture that drives continuous learning and innovation for our customers.

Why should you be part of our success story?

As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

About the role
Most teams use AI as a faster way for humans to build products. At Deel, we want to go further: build the system that lets AI build the products, with humans defining the taste, the guardrails, and the standards it works within.

That system is your product. You design and build the substrate AI generates against: the design system and component architecture, the generation and agent workflows, the quality gates that keep AI output production-ready, and the feedback loops that keep everything visible to the team. You stay hands-on as a designer throughout, because the fastest way to prove a generation system works is to design and ship real interfaces on top of it. This is a senior individual contributor role. It is systems-first and craft-backed: you build the machine, and you use your own design ability to pressure-test it. You spend your time in Figma and in a code editor in roughly equal measure, you partner directly with design leadership to drive AI adoption across the whole design organisation, and you work as part of a cross-functional team alongside Engineering and Product rather than in isolation.

What you will doBuild the system that lets AI build products
- Architect the design system, tokens, and components as the substrate AI generates against. Design prompt libraries, patterns, and agent workflows that turn design intent into production-ready UI with minimal human assembly.

Design hands-on to prove it
- Stay a practicing designer. Explore concepts quickly, design real interfaces, and prototype in production front-end code so you are the first and toughest test of whether the system produces excellent, shippable work.

Own quality, guardrails, and evals
- Define production-readiness criteria for AI-generated UI, design-to-code fidelity benchmarks, regression safeguards, and evaluation methods that keep AI output honest. Acceleration cannot come at the cost of craft.

Drive the AI workflow across the design org
- Partner directly with design leadership to maintain, evolve, and roll out the AI-native workflow across the whole design organisation, not just your own work. This is a shared, ongoing responsibility, not a one-off setup: driving adoption, keeping standards current as tools change, and embedding the workflow across teams so it never depends on one person.

Work cross-functionally
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product, and design-system contributors. You complement engin