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Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco, California, United StatesRemoteFull Time$130,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 1 month agoHidden Gem · YC Startup

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Role summary

Seeking a Founding Design Engineer to design and build next-generation interfaces for human-AI interaction across web, desktop, and mobile platforms. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of shipping polished product UIs end-to-end, with exceptional taste in typography, hierarchy, motion, and density. Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS is required, with Figma being a comfortable tool when needed. Excitement for AI and agents is crucial. Bonus points for prior experience designing AI/agent surfaces and building design systems from scratch.

You’ll design and build the next generation of interfaces for human-AI interaction. Web, desktop, mobile.

**You should have**

* Shipped polished product UI end-to-end: you design and build, no handoffs
* Strong taste in typography, hierarchy, motion, and density; care deeply about the details everyone else skips
* Strong in React, TypeScript, and tailwind; comfortable in Figma when it helps
* Excitement about AI and agents

**Bonus**

* Designed AI/agent surfaces before (chat, streaming, tool calls, multi-agent flows)
* Built a design system from scratch

**Benefits**

* Health, dental, vision (100% covered)
* Flexible PTO
* Equipment of your choice and any AI tools you want to try
* Visa sponsorship if you need it
* Whipping the Clankers

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