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Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the Silicon Valley company is creating the digital infrastructure needed to bring intelligence to every moving machine on the planet. Applied Intuition services the automotive, defense, trucking, construction, mining and agriculture industries in three core areas: tools and infrastructure, operating systems, and autonomy. Eighteen of the top 20 global automakers, as well as the United States military and its allies, trust the company’s solutions to deliver physical intelligence. Applied Intuition is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in Washington, D.C.; San Diego; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; Ann Arbor, Michigan; London; Stuttgart; Munich; Stockholm; Bangalore; Seoul; and Tokyo. Learn more at applied.co.\nWe are an in-office company, and our expectation is that full-time employees primarily work from their Applied Intuition office 5 days a week. However, we also recognize the importance of flexibility and trust our employees to manage their schedules responsibly. This may include occasional remote work, starting the day with morning meetings from home before heading to the office, or leaving earlier when needed to accommodate family commitments. This in-office expectation does not apply to contractor positions\nAbout the role\nWe're looking for a System Designer who can bring coherence and structure to complex, multi-surface software experiences across Applied Intuition's product portfolio. As part of Applied Intuition's design team, you will define the interaction frameworks, information architecture, and design systems that let our products scale consistently across tools, platforms, and customer use cases.\nAt Applied Intuition you will\nDefine and evolve the foundational design language for a platform-level build system.\n\nBuild a platform level design system that supports multiple products and tools, rather than a single application.\n\nEstablish scalable design system assets across design and code.\n\nDefine agent-driven design system patterns, enabling AI agents and coding tools to generate product experiences using approved components, patterns, and system rules.\n\nCreate code-based standards, reusable skills, and implementation guidance that engineers and AI coding tools can use consistently.\n\nEstablish and maintain accessibility standards across components, patterns, and platforms.\n\nValidate the design system across real products and workflows.\n\nSupport a multi-platform ecosystem across web, in-vehicle interfaces, devices, enterprise tools, and emerging surfaces.\n\nDefine patterns for multiple interaction models, including click, touch, voice, and agent-driven interactions.\n\nMaintain a high bar for visual design, brand, usability, accessibility, and consistency.\n\nCreate clear documentation for designers, engineers, customers, and AI-assisted development workflows.\n\nWe're looking for someone who has\n6+ years of experience in product design, UX design, or design systems work, ideally on complex B2B, technical, or data-heavy software\n\nBachelors degree in engineering or design field\n\nStrong experience building and scaling platform-level design systems across multiple products or tools\n\nExcellent visual and interaction design skills\n\nStrong understanding of design system architecture, accessibility, and inclusive design.\n\nExperience translating design systems into production code, reusable components, and AI-consumable standards\n\nStrong systems thinking and ability to design for complex enterprise ecosystems.\n\nExperience partnering closely with engineering\n\nStrong documentation and communication skills\n\nNice to have\nExperience shipping design system components directly in a production codebase\n\nExperience creating AI coding guidelines, skills, rules, or agent-driven design system workflows\n\nExperience running research or usability validation\n\nExperience designing for automotive, enterprise software, developer tools, or platform products\n\nExperience with embedded devices, voice, multimodal, or agent-driven interfaces\n\nDon’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nApplied Intuition is an equal opportunity employer and federal contractor or subcontractor. Consequently, the parties agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 41 CFR 60-300.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and that these laws are incorporated herein by reference. These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin. These regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability. The parties also agree that, as applicable, they will abide by the requirements of Executive Order 13496 (29 CFR Part 471, Appendix A to Subpart A), relating to the notice of employee rights under federal labor laws.\nFOR US-BASED ROLES:Applied Intuition is committed to providing an accessible and inclusive application and interview experience to applicants who are disabled veterans and other applicants with disabilities or medical conditions. Reasonable accommodations are available, requesting an accommodation will not affect your candidacy in any way, and you are not required to disclose the nature of your disability or medical condition in order to make a request. 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