Senior Product Design Engineer - DuckDuckGo

Who We Are

DuckDuckGo is the online protection company and a remote-first team of 300+ on a mission to raise the standard of trust online. Founded in 2008 and profitable since 2014, our annual revenue exceeds $100M USD. Millions use our browsers across Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android, alongside our search engine and Privacy Pro.

Our culture emphasizes trust, inclusivity, and empowered project management, where every team member takes full ownership of their work from scoping and execution to postmortem.

Your Team and Role

Working on the Design Functional Team, this role is design-first, leveraging your product design expertise and obsession with craft to maintain high quality across products including Duck.ai, native apps, search, and related initiatives.

At DuckDuckGo, Design owns quality end-to-end, and your engineering skills close the gap between intended design and what ships. You are fluent in code to prototype, spec precisely, and partner with engineers as a peer within the codebase. As our second Design Engineer, you will have the opportunity to shape the discipline and lead high-impact projects at scale.

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

• 7+ years in product design roles, including 2+ years at a senior level with significant global consumer brands.
• Push creative limits on complex design problems, delivering delight, craft, and exceptional quality.
• Communicate visual and interaction recommendations via high-fidelity mockups, rationale, prototypes, and motion variables.
• Partner with engineers as a peer, reasoning about decisions in PR reviews and directly contributing code to raise design quality.
• Prototype in code to production standards with semantic markup and accessibility awareness, leveraging AI appropriately.
• Structure design systems beyond component inventories: token layering, primitive vs. semantic naming, and design-to-code parity.
• Proficient in both qualitative and quantitative research and experimentation, comfortable instrumenting your own work.
• Contribute across the product lifecycle, including prioritization, product strategy, and user testing.
• Build tools and define requirements that accelerate design and engineering workflows.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base Salary: $178,500 USD annually (identical across all locations within level) plus stock options.
• Health Coverage: Company-sponsored health benefits for US-based team members.
• Workplace Perks: Paid parental leave, home office setup allowance, and co-working allowances.

Additional Details

• Flexible work arrangement with no core hours (averaging ~40 hours/week).
• Required attendance on camera via video conferencing for meetings.
• Travel at least twice a year for all-hands meetups and team retreats (4–5 days each).
• Successful completion of a background check is required.