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Design engineer salary
Design engineer salary on the open web is mostly mechanical and hardware data. This page uses only base pay that employers wrote on software postings: design engineers who ship UI, plus UX engineer, UI engineer, design technologist, and design systems roles. Nothing here is estimated, crowdsourced, or converted from total compensation.
19 open listings include a yearly USD range, from $140,000 to $440,000, with a median midpoint near $235,000. CAD ranges run CA$210,000–CA$300,000 (2). EUR ranges run €119,000–€188,000 (2). GBP ranges run £100,000–£184,000 (3). Those figures stay in the currency the employer posted.
Software design engineer postings with pay: $140,000–$440,000, CA$210,000–CA$300,000, €119,000–€188,000, £100,000–£184,000 (21 listings).
By role
| Role | Posted range | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Design engineer | $140,000–$440,000, CA$210,000–CA$300,000, €119,000–€188,000, £100,000–£184,000 | 21 |
| UX engineer | $344,100–$344,100 | 1 |
| UI engineer | — | 0 |
| Design technologist | — | 0 |
| Design systems engineer | $160,000–$405,000 | 3 |
| Creative technologist | $140,000–$220,000 | 1 |
| Creative developer | — | 0 |
Listings with pay
- Senior Software Engineer - Design Systems - FrontendFaire · $160,000–$220,000 a year
- Design EngineerGranola · £100,000–£130,000 a year
- Staff Design EngineerMixpanel · $300,000 a year
- Creative TechnologistOpusClip · $140,000–$220,000 a year
- Senior Product Design EngineerOura · $172,000–$203,000 a year
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System)Perplexity · $220,000–$405,000 a year
- Design Engineer, Growth & MarketingPerplexity · $180,000–$300,000 a year
- Design EngineerRamp · $172,000–$440,000 a year
- Principal UX Engineer, AdsReddit · $344,100 a year
- Staff Software Engineer, Android Design SystemReddit · $303,900 a year
- Design EngineerReplit · $180,000–$290,000 a year
- Manager, Design EngineeringSentry · $200,000–$270,000 a year
- Design EngineerVercel · $208,000–$312,000 a year
- Design EngineerWarp · $140,000–$230,000 a year
- Design EngineerWorkOS · $175,000–$225,000 a year
- Design engineer (US)Writer · $143,000–$234,000 a year
- Design Engineer (Brand Team)Baseten · $190,000–$240,000 a year
- Design EngineerCohere · $200,000–$245,000 a year
- Staff Design Engineer - AmericasAshby · $250,000–$295,000 a year
- Staff Design Engineer - CanadaAshby · CA$256,000–CA$300,000 a year
- Staff Design Engineer - EUAshby · €154,000–€188,000 a year
- Staff Design Engineer - UKAshby · £151,000–£184,000 a year
- Design Engineer - EUAshby · €119,000–€145,000 a year
- Design Engineer - UKAshby · £123,000–£149,000 a year
- Design Engineer - AmericasAshby · $210,000–$250,000 a year
- Design Engineer - CanadaAshby · CA$210,000–CA$248,000 a year
How this is counted
A range is included only when the source board exposes it as salary (Ashby compensation, Lever salary range, or a figure written in the Greenhouse description) and it is yearly base pay. Equity, OTE, and hidden compensation are left out of the schema and this table. Each currency is counted on its own. The median is the median of USD range midpoints when a USD range exists, otherwise the currency with a posted range. Nothing is converted. See the salary guide outline for what a fuller write-up will cover. Per-role pages: UX engineer salary, UI engineer salary, Design technologist salary, Design systems engineer salary, Creative technologist salary, Creative developer salary.