Principal AI Design Systems Engineer

Opportunity for a technical force multiplier to design and build our next-generation, AI-enabled system from the ground up. In this role, you’ll operate as a hands-on individual contributor—leveraging Claude, MCP integrations, agentic workflows, and full-stack engineering to turn messy enterprise inputs into seamless, high-impact production systems. If you thrive on full-ownership, moving fast, and tying your technical craft directly to real-world business results, this is your platform to build.

Responsibilities

• Technical Architecture & Product Strategy: Define the technical architecture for the unified design system, driving strategy, execution, objectives, and quantitative adoption measurements across the enterprise.
• AI Tooling & Workflow Integration: Design and construct production AI components—including Claude plugins, MCP servers, agentic workflows, and prompt/context engineering tools—to accelerate designer and engineer workflows.
• Enterprise Governance & Change Management: Establish governance frameworks and technical recommendations to manage, scale, and support the design system across vertical application teams and horizontal business groups.
• Balanced Team Collaboration: Partner directly with designers, engineers, and product managers to pressure-test solutions against real usage, iterating rapidly and building self-serve documentation and training layers.
• Production & Constraint Navigation: End-to-end ownership of shipping functional tools into production, navigating enterprise permissions, security reviews, and infrastructure constraints.

This is a 24-month contract opportunity with the possibility of extension or conversion to perm. You can work remotely from anywhere in the US.

If you do a great job, you can apply to an internal positions throughout the company at the end of the contract period. Joining this upbeat, collaborative group is a great way to gain exposure to the retail world!

Visionaire Partners offers all full-time W2 contractors a comprehensive benefits package for the contractor, their spouses/domestic partners, and dependents. Options include 401k with up to 4% match, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident coverage, and both Medical and Dependent Care FSAs.

Required Skills

• Track record of personally solving hard, messy business problems from start to finish, with a focus on tangible results tied to revenue, cost, or time saved.
• Hands-on experience shipping Claude/LLM tooling (or similar) to production (MCP servers, agentic workflows, prompt/context engineering) and leveraging AI tools like Claude to build quickly.
• Strong capabilities in Python and/or TypeScript/React
• Strong SQL, API development, and data pipeline experience.
• Familiarity with GCP (BigQuery, Vertex AI) or other cloudplatforms.
• Working UI/UX implementation skills (Figma to front-end) alongside demonstrated success delivering software inside complex enterprise security and permission frameworks.
• Ability to provide concise answers with depth on request, prioritizing shipped output and technical achievements over titles or credentials

Must be authorized to work in the U.S./Sponsorships are not available