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California, United States
Hybrid
Location: Santa Clara (Picarro HQ) / Remote Job Term: Full-Time
Picarro is looking for a Design Engineer to own the design portfolio across our Industrial Solutions products. This is a hands-on role for someone who thinks in systems, sweats the details, and can move fluidly between design and code. Shaping how our products look, feel, and behave from prototype through production.
Good design at Picarro means something specific: our users are compliance managers, EHS leads, and field operators making high-stakes decisions under real-world constraints. We care about clarity, trust, and workflow efficiency — not engagement or delight for its own sake.
You will define and maintain design standards across Industrial Solutions, contribute directly to prototypes, and make production code contributions that bring designs to life. You will work closely with PM and engineering to ensure design intent survives the handoff, ensuring that what ships matches what was envisioned.
Design Ownership
Own the design portfolio for Industrial Solutions, establishing and maintaining visual, interaction, and workflow standards across all products. You are the voice of design quality on the team.
User Research & Workflow Design
Deeply understand how industrial customers, compliance managers, EHS leads, and field operators work. Map user journeys, identify friction, and translate complex operational workflows into product experiences that are intuitive under real-world conditions.
Prototype Development
Collaborate with PM to build and refine product prototypes. You contribute, shape, and raise the quality bar before engineering picks work up.
Production Contributions
Make targeted code contributions in production to implement or refine UI and interaction patterns. You bridge the gap between what design specifies and what engineering delivers.
Design Review
Review production PRs for design and UX fidelity. Catch drift between intent and implementation before it reaches customers.
Design System Stewardship
Own and evolve the design system for Industrial Solutions, including components, patterns, and documentation to ensure consistency across the product surface.
Preferred Qualifications
Salary & Benefits:
The base salary range for this full-time position is $130k-$170k, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and location. Total compensation includes base salary, bonus eligibility, and equity.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
About Picarro:
We are the global leader in delivering timely, trusted, and actionable data through enhanced optical spectroscopy. Our solutions serve diverse applications, including natural gas leak detection, ethylene oxide emissions monitoring, semiconductor fabrication, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, atmospheric science, air quality, greenhouse gas measurements, food safety, hydrology, and ecology. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, our products are trusted in over 90 countries and supported by over 65 patents related to cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) technology.
Picarro, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a diverse workforce.