Design Engineer - Visual & Design Systems

As a Design Engineer on the Visual & Design Systems team, you’ll be an individual contributor focused on bringing Roblox’s visual language to life through scalable systems, high-fidelity prototypes, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for defining and evolving the visual foundation of the product, ensuring consistency, clarity, and craft across all surfaces—from mobile and desktop to console and VR. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You have experience at the intersection of design and engineering, with a good understanding of design systems, prototyping, and platform-specific implementation. Your work will help ensure our design tools, systems, and prototypes not only inspire—but scale.

You will report to the Head of Visual & Design Systems.

You will:

• Build internal tools and plugins (e.g., in Figma or custom web apps) that enhance our design and development workflows.
• Create high-fidelity, cross-platform prototypes that bring new product experiences to life across mobile, desktop, console, and VR.
• Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and researchers to explore and validate design directions through code.
• Contribute to the evolution of our design system—ensuring it is scalable, performant, and easy to use for both design and engineering teams.
• Serve as a technical partner to our brand and product design teams, helping translate visual language into working components.
• Prototype and test new interaction models, motion systems, and UI patterns to elevate quality and consistency across the platform.

You have:

• 3+ years of experience in front-end or design-focused software development, with a portfolio showcasing UI prototyping and tooling work.
• Familiarity with modern design tools and APIs, including Figma and its plugin architecture.
• Experience using JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, modern frameworks like React, or similar tools to validate and refine design concepts.
• Familiarity with design tokens and related tooling and workflows.
• Experience building or contributing to design systems and component libraries for multi-platform products (web, mobile, or beyond).
• Ability to translate design intent into high-quality, performant code and prototypes with attention to interaction, animation, and detail.
• (Bonus Point) Experience with Roblox development and Lua.
• (Bonus Point) Experience working across platforms like VR or console, or familiarity with game-engine-adjacent workflows.

You are: 

• A hybrid thinker who’s as comfortable in Figma as you are in a code editor.
• Curious, experimental, and passionate about the future of interface design and interaction.
• A good communicator who enjoys working in cross-disciplinary teams.
• Detail-oriented, with a high bar for craft and a love of refining the polish and performance of your work.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and moving fluidly between prototyping and production work.