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Principal Design Architect

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Microsoft Corporation

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United States , Redmond

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Not provided

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Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Job Description:

As a Principal Design Architect (also known as a Creative Technologist), you’ll be a high level individual contributor working at the intersection of design systems, engineering, and AI tooling. You’ll define how Microsoft’s design system evolves in the AI era—building adaptive, intelligent systems that accelerate designer and developer workflows. Your work spans intelligent tools, design to code automation, and AI augmented processes that boost velocity and quality at scale. This isn’t just about UI design; it’s about shaping AI behavior and how people collaborate with machine intelligence.

Job Responsibility:

  • Bring an AI forward mindset
  • evaluate system behavior and define quality for complex scenarios
  • Blend design craft with technical curiosity, working beyond pixels using real data and prototypes
  • Influence across PM, Engineering, Data Science, Research, and Design
  • Provide strategic design vision and business rationale
  • Build AI powered tools and pipelines that move concepts to production quickly
  • Embed advanced AI capabilities into the design system for adaptability and workflow integration
  • Prototype intelligent components and adaptive UI patterns
  • Operationalize LLMs, generative UI, and multimodal systems into practical workflows
  • Ensure seamless design system to code integration using AI driven utilities
  • Act as a force multiplier—accelerating cycles, scaling quality, and shaping AI augmented design

Requirements:

  • Master's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 6+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Human Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or related field AND 8+ years experience working in product or service design
  • OR equivalent experience (e.g., demonstrated experience working in product or service design or using design thinking to solve problems)

Nice to have:

  • Experience with LLMs, generative UI, and broader AI/ML technologies
  • Experience designing AI/LLM- powered experiences
  • familiarity with conversational and voice systems
  • Strong foundation in design systems and frontend engineering
  • Ability to prototype and ship intelligent design to code workflows
  • Proficiency in Figma and AI prototyping tools
  • experience with design automation and component libraries
  • Portfolio demonstrating strong visual design craft
  • Ability to thrive in fastpaced, evolving environments
  • Strong communication and storytelling skills
  • Collaborative mindset across design, engineering, and research
  • Experience influencing technical decisions and strategic design direction
  • Experience shipping products, services, or games end-to-end
  • Portfolio including AI behavior, model shaping, orchestration, or agent based prototypes
  • Experience with agents, tool integration, or evaluation frameworks
  • Comfort with ambiguity in AI systems, including uncertainty and fallbacks

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 16, 2026

Employment Type:
Fulltime
Work Type:
On-site work
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