Design engineering is where we grow some of our best people, and this internship is a real seat at that table, not a coffee-adjacent observation post. You will spend six months embedded with the Lisbon design and frontend teams: implementing design-system components in React, turning research prototypes into clickable reality, building internal tooling that keeps tokens in sync between design files and code, and sitting in on client discovery sessions to see where the work comes from.
The internship is onsite at the Rua da Prata studio, because the mentorship that makes it valuable happens shoulder to shoulder. You will have a named mentor, a written curriculum with monthly milestones, and a final project that ships. We hire from this program: interns who meet the bar receive a junior design engineer offer at the end, and most of our past interns are still with us.
What you'll do
- Implement and document design-system components under mentor review
- Build interactive prototypes for discovery sprints and client workshops
- Contribute to internal tooling that connects design tokens to production code
- Run accessibility checks and visual QA on components before release
- Present your work at the weekly design crit and incorporate feedback
- Complete a structured curriculum covering tokens, motion, and component architecture
What we're looking for
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or TypeScript, with some React exposure
- A portfolio or repository showing visual sensibility and curiosity, student projects welcome
- Enrollment in or recent graduation from a design, HCI, or computer-science program
- Eagerness to take feedback and iterate quickly without taking it personally
- Availability to work onsite in Lisbon for the six-month program
- Fluent English
Nice to have
- Experience with a design tool's token or variables features
- Coursework or projects involving accessibility or motion design
- A personal site you built yourself, however imperfect
- Portuguese language skills