What Principal Design Jobs Ask For
Across 581 open Principal Design postings that list skills, the ones mentioned most often are ai, automation, prototyping.
Updated October 28, 2026
645 open Principal Design postings. The percentages below are measured over the 581 of them that list skills at all.
| Skill | Mentioned in |
|---|---|
| ai | 41% |
| automation | 23% |
| prototyping | 16% |
| cloud | 16% |
| oracle | 16% |
| figma | 14% |
| python | 13% |
| cad | 13% |
| agile | 10% |
| machine-learning | 10% |
| interaction-design | 10% |
| networking | 9% |
| accessibility | 9% |
| analytics | 9% |
| user-research | 8% |
| agentic-ai | 8% |
| firmware | 8% |
| stakeholder-management | 7% |
| corrective-action | 6% |
| verilog | 6% |
| design-patterns | 6% |
| root-cause-analysis | 6% |
| systemverilog | 5% |
| incident-investigation | 5% |
| information-architecture | 5% |
| perl | 5% |
| risk-assessment | 5% |
| uvm | 5% |
| cmos | 5% |
| api | 4% |
| cybersecurity | 4% |
| assembly | 4% |
| autocad | 4% |
| tcl | 4% |
| adobe-creative-suite | 4% |
| saas | 4% |
| data-science | 4% |
| design-thinking | 4% |
| fpga | 4% |
| observability | 4% |
"Mentioned in" counts postings that name the skill anywhere — including as a nice-to-have — so treat it as the ceiling, not the bar.
Browse 645 open Principal Design jobs →
Across all Design levels
Most Design postings never state a level. This wider list covers them too.
- ai 7,059
- figma 4,843
- prototyping 3,129
- photoshop 2,794
- cad 2,681
- accessibility 2,591
- illustrator 2,567
- autocad 2,529
- adobe-creative-suite 2,240
- automation 2,237
- user-research 2,199
- typography 1,957