“engineer”
Appeared in 26% of designer job listings the week of 2026-11-02 (22 of 86 postings).
First tracked 2026-04-13 · 21 weeks of collected data · peak prevalence 46% · no data collected Jul 27 – Sep 27
“engineer” prevalence in designer JDs, by week
2026-04-13 → 2026-11-02% of each week's designer postings that mention this term · 21 collected weeks · peak 46% · 13 earlier weeks from before collection began not shown · hatched rows: no data collected, not 0%
Where the conversation happens
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| Role | Total mentions |
|---|---|
| Design Engineer | 1796 |
| Senior Product Designer | 59 |
| Staff Product Designer | 35 |
| Product Designer | 31 |
| Design Systems Engineer | 27 |
| Principal Product Designer | 17 |
| AI Product Designer | 10 |
| Design Lead | 7 |
| UX Designer | 6 |
| UX Writer | 2 |
| Product Design Manager | 2 |
| Design Director | 1 |
Roles where “engineer” appears most
Ranked by share of the role's active listings that include this term. Roles with fewer than 20 active listings are left out.
- Design Engineer96% · 702 of 731 listings · 1,865 mentions
- Design Systems Engineer21% · 19 of 92 listings · 32 mentions
- Principal Product Designer7.3% · 14 of 192 listings · 18 mentions
- AI Product Designer6.5% · 8 of 123 listings · 10 mentions
- Design Director5.3% · 3 of 57 listings · 3 mentions
- Staff Product Designer4.8% · 33 of 687 listings · 36 mentions
- Product Design Manager4.5% · 2 of 44 listings · 2 mentions
- Product Designer3.6% · 25 of 704 listings · 33 mentions
- UX Writer3.1% · 2 of 65 listings · 2 mentions
- Senior Product Designer2.8% · 47 of 1,657 listings · 60 mentions
About this tracker
Every active designer listing in our corpus is tokenized: HTML stripped, stopwords (common English words + job-posting boilerplate) removed, pure numbers dropped. The remaining tokens are bucketed into Monday-anchored weeks based on when each listing was first seen. Counts are weekly totals across every listing for that week. A week only counts as collected if our LinkedIn scrape (about 80% of volume) ran that week; weeks when it didn't are shown hatched as gaps, never as zeros.