Design Engineering Intern

Tempo
Toronto
Workplace: OnsiteInternshipUSD 35 - 50 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Skills: ["UI design","Design systems","Accessibility","Interaction design","Prototyping"]

A design engineering internship at Tempo focuses on building production-ready UI components and shaping a design system within a collaborative team of product, engineering, and AI/ML professionals. You’ll implement real UI in React/TypeScript, contribute to accessibility and performance, and help advance AI-assisted design workflows in a fast-growing Canadian AI startup.

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Tempo
Tempo
6 months ago

Design Engineering Intern

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Job Summary

A design engineering internship at Tempo focuses on building production-ready UI components and shaping a design system within a collaborative team of product, engineering, and AI/ML professionals. You’ll implement real UI in React/TypeScript, contribute to accessibility and performance, and help advance AI-assisted design workflows in a fast-growing Canadian AI startup.
Location: Toronto
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Internship
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own end-to-end UI: Go from concept → flows → wireframes → prototypes → production-ready, high-fidelity UI.
  • •Build real product: Implement responsive, accessible components in React + TypeScript + Tailwind, using Radix UI / shadcn patterns.
  • •Shape complex UX: Partner with Product, Eng, and AI/ML to design clear interactions for real-time, multi-user features.
  • •Evolve our design system: Drive tokens, theming, documentation, and component APIs for scalability and consistency.
  • •Design with AI in the loop: Integrate AI-assisted design-to-code workflows and author patterns that our agents can reliably compose.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 35 - 50 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •Portfolio of shipped, product-quality UI that demonstrates strong visual taste and systems thinking; case studies should highlight design systems, interaction patterns, accessibility, and measurable product impact.
  • •Fluency with Figma (flows, prototypes, component props/variants).
  • •Experience building within a design system (tokens, theming, component APIs).
  • •Strong grasp of UX principles, interaction design, and accessibility fundamentals.
  • •Interest in AI-augmented workflows (promptable components, agent-safe patterns).
Skills:UI designDesign systemsAccessibilityInteraction designPrototyping
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ReactTypeScriptTailwindRadix UIShadcnFigmaLiveblocksWebSocketsA11y

Eligibility

Visa:US citizen/visa only
Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Tempo
Tempo provides an AI-powered calendar and scheduling assistant that automates meeting coordination, crafts messages, and manages calendars using natural-language commands and smart suggestions to streamline scheduling workflows for professionals and teams.
Industry: Enterprise Software
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