Software Design Engineer Jobs in Texas
Software Design Engineer jobs in Texas are highly active, with strong demand concentrated in aerospace and defense, semiconductor manufacturing, enterprise software, and telecommunications across seniority levels from entry-level associate engineers through principal and staff engineers. Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston anchor the market, with major employers such as Texas Instruments, Dell Technologies, and Lockheed Martin maintaining deep engineering workforces in the state. The most sought-after specialties include embedded systems design, FPGA development, and hardware-software integration. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Description
Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems - Mobile to help build and evolve the native mobile foundations of Realtor.com’s design system. You’ll create reusable UI components, design tokens, documentation, and tooling that help our iOS and Android teams deliver consistent, accessible, and performant experiences.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats a shared UI library as a product. Your users are the engineers and designers building Realtor.com’s mobile experiences. You’ll work closely with design-system designers and mobile product teams to turn design intent into reliable, well-crafted components that are easy to adopt and maintain.
We’re looking for deep production expertise in either iOS with Swift and SwiftUI or Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, along with the ability to collaborate across both platforms. You’ll lead implementation work in your strongest platform and partner with counterpart engineers on shared foundations, component behavior, and adoption. Experience with iOS is highly preferred. We do not expect expert-level proficiency in both stacks.
Top Reasons to Apply:
A strong mobile design system helps teams spend less time rebuilding UI and more time solving problems for consumers and customers. Your work will make consistent, accessible experiences easier to deliver across iOS and Android, while preserving the native behavior people expect on each platform.
- Greenfield Development: Opportunity to build new iOS components as Realtor.com modernizes its applications.
- Company-Wide Impact: Components developed by this engineer will be used across multiple product engineering teams.
- Specialized Engineering Ownership: Become the primary iOS design systems engineer on a small, experienced team with significant ownership and visibility.
What You'll Do:
- Build and maintain native UI components on your primary platform, with clear APIs, sensible defaults, composable behavior, and well-defined states.
- Partner with designers to translate Figma specifications into production-ready components, resolving interaction details, motion, adaptive layouts, and edge cases together.
- Evolve design-token and theming foundations for color, typography, spacing, shape, and other shared styles, including support for light and dark appearances.
- Collaborate with iOS, Android, and web counterparts on shared design intent while respecting platform-specific conventions, navigation, gestures, and accessibility behavior. Prioritize a coherent experience rather than identical implementations.
- Build accessibility into components from the start, including screen-reader semantics, scalable text, focus behavior, sufficient touch targets, and support for reduced motion.
- Strengthen quality through unit, UI, screenshot or snapshot, accessibility, and consumer-integration testing. Validate behavior across supported OS versions, screen sizes, and device configurations.
- Profile and improve component performance, including rendering, scrolling, memory use, and unnecessary UI updates, while keeping library dependencies and application-size impact manageable.
- Own changes from technical design through implementation, documentation, release, and adoption. Maintain stable APIs, versioning, deprecation plans, and migration guidance for consuming teams.
- Create interactive component catalogs, previews, examples, and usage documentation that help engineers and designers evaluate components and use them correctly.
- Help teams incrementally adopt shared components in existing applications, including interoperability with UIKit or Android Views where needed on your primary platform.
- Review contributions, support consuming teams, and mentor engineers. Use feedback to prioritize improvements and distinguish reusable foundations from product-specific UI.
What You'll Bring:
- 5+ years of professional software-development experience, with substantial hands-on experience building and shipping native mobile applications. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
-
Deep expertise in at least one native UI stack:
iOS: Swift and production SwiftUI experience, including state and data flow, composition, layout, and interoperability with UIKit.
Android: Kotlin and production Jetpack Compose experience, including state management, composition, recomposition, layout, and interoperability with Android Views. - Direct experience building or maintaining a design system or shared UI library used by multiple product teams, not only consuming a UI framework.
- Strong judgment in component API design, reusable abstractions, theming, and separation of presentation from application-specific business logic.
- Practical accessibility experience on your primary platform, including VoiceOver and Dynamic Type on iOS, or TalkBack, semantics, and font scaling on Android.
- Experience testing mobile UI components and diagnosing rendering or interaction problems using native tooling.
- Experience distributing and versioning shared libraries through your platform’s tooling, such as Swift Package Manager or Gradle/Maven, with automated build and release workflows.
- The ability to partner closely with designers, identify gaps in specifications, and explain implementation trade-offs constructively.
- The ability to independently scope and deliver work, communicate risks and dependencies, and support engineers who depend on your code.
- Curiosity about the other mobile platform and a willingness to learn its conventions, review shared specifications, and collaborate on cross-platform decisions.
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Description
Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Design Systems - Mobile to help build and evolve the native mobile foundations of Realtor.com’s design system. You’ll create reusable UI components, design tokens, documentation, and tooling that help our iOS and Android teams deliver consistent, accessible, and performant experiences.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who treats a shared UI library as a product. Your users are the engineers and designers building Realtor.com’s mobile experiences. You’ll work closely with design-system designers and mobile product teams to turn design intent into reliable, well-crafted components that are easy to adopt and maintain.
We’re looking for deep production expertise in either iOS with Swift and SwiftUI or Android with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, along with the ability to collaborate across both platforms. You’ll lead implementation work in your strongest platform and partner with counterpart engineers on shared foundations, component behavior, and adoption. Experience with iOS is highly preferred. We do not expect expert-level proficiency in both stacks.
Top Reasons to Apply:
A strong mobile design system helps teams spend less time rebuilding UI and more time solving problems for consumers and customers. Your work will make consistent, accessible experiences easier to deliver across iOS and Android, while preserving the native behavior people expect on each platform.
- Greenfield Development: Opportunity to build new iOS components as Realtor.com modernizes its applications.
- Company-Wide Impact: Components developed by this engineer will be used across multiple product engineering teams.
- Specialized Engineering Ownership: Become the primary iOS design systems engineer on a small, experienced team with significant ownership and visibility.
What You'll Do:
- Build and maintain native UI components on your primary platform, with clear APIs, sensible defaults, composable behavior, and well-defined states.
- Partner with designers to translate Figma specifications into production-ready components, resolving interaction details, motion, adaptive layouts, and edge cases together.
- Evolve design-token and theming foundations for color, typography, spacing, shape, and other shared styles, including support for light and dark appearances.
- Collaborate with iOS, Android, and web counterparts on shared design intent while respecting platform-specific conventions, navigation, gestures, and accessibility behavior. Prioritize a coherent experience rather than identical implementations.
- Build accessibility into components from the start, including screen-reader semantics, scalable text, focus behavior, sufficient touch targets, and support for reduced motion.
- Strengthen quality through unit, UI, screenshot or snapshot, accessibility, and consumer-integration testing. Validate behavior across supported OS versions, screen sizes, and device configurations.
- Profile and improve component performance, including rendering, scrolling, memory use, and unnecessary UI updates, while keeping library dependencies and application-size impact manageable.
- Own changes from technical design through implementation, documentation, release, and adoption. Maintain stable APIs, versioning, deprecation plans, and migration guidance for consuming teams.
- Create interactive component catalogs, previews, examples, and usage documentation that help engineers and designers evaluate components and use them correctly.
- Help teams incrementally adopt shared components in existing applications, including interoperability with UIKit or Android Views where needed on your primary platform.
- Review contributions, support consuming teams, and mentor engineers. Use feedback to prioritize improvements and distinguish reusable foundations from product-specific UI.
What You'll Bring:
- 5+ years of professional software-development experience, with substantial hands-on experience building and shipping native mobile applications. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
-
Deep expertise in at least one native UI stack:
iOS: Swift and production SwiftUI experience, including state and data flow, composition, layout, and interoperability with UIKit.
Android: Kotlin and production Jetpack Compose experience, including state management, composition, recomposition, layout, and interoperability with Android Views. - Direct experience building or maintaining a design system or shared UI library used by multiple product teams, not only consuming a UI framework.
- Strong judgment in component API design, reusable abstractions, theming, and separation of presentation from application-specific business logic.
- Practical accessibility experience on your primary platform, including VoiceOver and Dynamic Type on iOS, or TalkBack, semantics, and font scaling on Android.
- Experience testing mobile UI components and diagnosing rendering or interaction problems using native tooling.
- Experience distributing and versioning shared libraries through your platform’s tooling, such as Swift Package Manager or Gradle/Maven, with automated build and release workflows.
- The ability to partner closely with designers, identify gaps in specifications, and explain implementation trade-offs constructively.
- The ability to independently scope and deliver work, communicate risks and dependencies, and support engineers who depend on your code.
- Curiosity about the other mobile platform and a willingness to learn its conventions, review shared specifications, and collaborate on cross-platform decisions.
How We Work:
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You:
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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What Texas Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in software design engineer jobs across Texas.
- Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science required
- Proficiency in hardware description languages such as VHDL or Verilog for design roles
- Experience with embedded C or C++ development in resource-constrained environments
- Familiarity with EDA tools including Cadence, Synopsys, or Mentor Graphics
- Ability to read and produce schematics, timing diagrams, and design documentation
- Experience with version control systems and collaborative engineering workflows such as Git
Software Design Engineer Jobs in Texas: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a software design engineer in Texas?
Most software design engineer roles in Texas require a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or computer science from an accredited program. Texas does not mandate a state license for software design engineers in private industry, though engineers who sign off on public-facing projects may pursue a Professional Engineer license through the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. Building expertise in embedded systems, FPGA design, or semiconductor toolchains significantly strengthens a candidacy with Texas employers.
How much do software design engineers make in Texas?
Software design engineers in Texas earn a median of about $132,150 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $82,600 for the lowest 10% to over $183,680 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire software design engineers in Texas?
Employers hiring software design engineers in Texas right now include AMD, Tesla, and NEURALINK, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Texas's concentration of semiconductor, defense, and enterprise technology firms means demand is distributed across the state rather than limited to a single metro.
Which Texas cities have the most software design engineer jobs?
Austin and Texas have the most software design engineer openings in Texas. Austin's dense cluster of semiconductor and software firms, the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex's telecommunications and defense contractors, and Houston's aerospace and energy-technology sector each drive sustained demand, meaning the city at the top of your list reflects the industry concentration rather than a single dominant employer.
Are there remote software design engineer jobs in Texas?
Yes, but they're less common than in purely software-focused disciplines because the role often involves hardware prototyping, lab validation, and access to specialized EDA tooling that requires on-site presence. About 0% of software design engineer openings tied to Texas are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with the remote share skewed toward the firmware, RTL verification, and simulation-heavy portions of the work rather than physical design and test.
How can I get hired as a software design engineer in Texas with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is an internship or new-graduate rotation program at a major Texas employer. Texas Instruments, Dell Technologies, and Raytheon Technologies all run structured new-grad engineering programs in Texas that place candidates without full-time experience into mentored design roles. Pursuing a senior capstone project involving embedded hardware or FPGA development, or earning an entry-level Electronics Technician certification through IPC, can differentiate a resume. Adjacent starting roles such as hardware test engineer or firmware validation engineer at Texas-based defense and semiconductor firms also provide a direct bridge into design work.
Where can I find and apply to software design engineer jobs in Texas?
You can find and apply to software design engineer jobs in Texas on Migrate Mate, which lists current Texas openings updated regularly. Find the roles that fit your background and apply directly from the listing.
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