Design Engineer

As a Design Engineer , you'll bridge the gap between engineering and design—owning the craft of building elegant, high-performance UI and design systems that scale. You'll work across our TypeScript/React frontend and collaborate closely with product and backend engineers to shape the future of how AI teams build products.

We're a small, smart, and hardworking team operating at the frontier of AI. Our customers demand world-class performance, reliability, and usability, and we aim to set the standard for intuitive design that enables product leaders and non-technical subject matter experts to collaborate effectively with developers.

About the role

You'll be responsible for:

• Designing and building high-quality, reusable UI components and design systems that scale.
• Crafting seamless, beautiful user experiences that make complex AI workflows intuitive.
• Bringing designs to life with polished, accessible, and performant front-end code.
• Making strong calls on when to build in-house solutions versus leveraging existing tools.
• Owning the end-to-end implementation of features that balance usability, aesthetics, and engineering efficiency.
• Advocating for best practices in design, accessibility, and front-end architecture.
• Engaging with users to understand their needs, ensuring the product is both functional and delightful.

About you

• You have a deep appreciation for great design and care about the finer details of UI/UX.
• You are equally comfortable designing interfaces and implementing them in code.
• You understand systems thinking and have experience building scalable design systems.
• You are capable in Figma
• You have strong frontend engineering skills in TypeScript, React, and TailwindCSS (or equivalent modern stacks).
• You are excited by AI and its potential, and want to shape the way teams interact with it.
• You hold yourself and others to a high bar, striving for elegance and simplicity in design and code.
• You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and want to have real impact.
• You communicate clearly, collaborate well, and enjoy engaging with users to improve the product.

Our stack

We aim for a modern, pragmatic stack that optimizes for speed and developer happiness:

• Frontend : TypeScript, React, Next.js, TailwindCSS, Radix UI
• Backend : FastAPI (Python), Postgres
• Infrastructure : AWS

Offices in London and San Francisco

This role is primarily for San Francisco.

If London is a more suitable location for you that can be arranged. We work in our HQ in SoMa, with flexibility as needed.