# Principal Design Engineer - XBOX

OverviewXBOX is seeking a Principal Design Engineer to shape developer and creator tools for game developers and players. Working at the intersection of design and engineering, you’ll turn ambitious ideas into functional prototypes, reusable systems, and polished product experiences that help people create, collaborate, and play. As part of XBOX Design, you’ll partner with designers, researchers, product managers, and engineers to guide experiences from early exploration through production. This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining exceptional interaction and visual design judgment with deep front-end engineering expertise. You’ll navigate ambiguity, influence direction across teams, and explore how AI can enable new tools and experiences for creators and players. Responsibilities Build and ship high-quality experiences.Write and review front-end code that balances design craft with accessibility, performance, security, and maintainability. Lead design quality reviews and own design ship-readiness approval for your areas in partnership with Engineering and Product. Make ideas tangible.Build interactive prototypes and proofs of concept to explore interaction models, te

- **Id**: 3836325
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-design-engineer-xbox>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T22:41:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T09:45:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4631
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Gaming Consoles, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 445
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.602
- **Repost share**: 0.038
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 142800
- **Max**: 274800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 274800

## Technologies

- **ESLint** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Jest** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:04:19Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 274800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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