Principal Design Engineer (AI & Design Systems)

About this role

One North is a digital experience agency that combines curiosity, scale, and agility to shape the future. As part of TEKsystems, a leading provider of business and technology services, we offer boutique solutions to solve complex problems. Our multidisciplinary teams of strategists, designers, and technologists excel in research and discovery, experience strategy, design, experience management, and technology implementation. Whether clients are establishing a vision for an experience or optimizing an existing one, we help businesses understand their audiences, design experiences, maximize technology, and bring their digital ideas to life. The world’s most successful companies rely on us to forge the future through electrifying work that sparks innovation and drives results.


Here’s what the opportunity supported through our TEKsystems Global Services (TGS) Talent Acquisition Team requires:


Position Overview


One North is seeking an experienced AI practitioner who can build and consult at the intersection of design and engineering. At One North, the Principal Design Engineer is one of the most forward-leaning roles in our practice; a person who uses artificial intelligence as a primary creative and technical instrument, and who brings that capability to bear on the hardest problems in design systems and design-to-code work.


This role will actively shape how One North and our clients work: defining AI-augmented pipelines, building agentic tooling, and demonstrating what's possible when someone with deep systems thinking and engineering skill treats AI as a first-class collaborator.


The Principal Design Engineer (AI & Design Systems) will ideally be based in the Chicago area for a light hybrid onsite/remote work model, but we are open to remote locations across the U.S.


Responsibilities

• Artificial Intelligence Focus
• Partner with agency leadership on One North's exploration of AI in design-to-code pipelines: identifying, test...