Founding Product Designer

TypeSafe is a frontier model lab. We build reliable and general AI systems to power economically valuable automation. Our mission is to usher in a new era of Transformative Artificial Intelligence (TAI): technology with the power to drive a societal shift on the scale of the agricultural and industrial revolutions.

While others chase benchmarks and academic puzzles, we’ve been quietly rethinking the LLM stack from first principles — building a new kind of general frontier model designed for real-world reliability, decision-making, and autonomy in production.

We’re a small, fast-moving team from OpenAI, Google Brain, and Meta/FAIR, backed by top-tier investors. Since mid-2024, we’ve been engineering the foundation for what comes after the current “state-of-the-art” — a model that actually gets things done.

# About the Role

We’re looking for a product designer who thinks like an engineer — someone who enjoys designing complex developer workflows, understands how AI systems behave, and isn’t afraid to prototype ideas directly in code.

You’ll work closely with engineers and researchers to shape the experience of building, testing, and operating our model in our console and, in the future, other product surface areas.

What you'll do:

• Design end to end UX for our developer platform, with a focus on improving the experience for new users
• Create interfaces that make complex AI workflows clear and approachable, whether that tooling is in evaluations, debugging, or observability
• Define the design language and influence the UX strategy for TypeSafe products
• Translate complex AI system behavior into clear, understandable UI
• Occasionally build prototypes or internal tools using modern LLM APIs

We are looking for people who:

• 3+ years of experience as a UX designer
• Experience designing developer tools, such asIDE plugins, observability systems, and data tools
• Strong creative problem-solving skills and the ability to reason from first principles when designing solutions for complex technical systems
• Familiarity and passion for LLMs and AI tooling – you vibe code to prototype, leverage gen AI products, and try out new AI tools frequently
• Comfort reading code, debugging, and collaborating closely with engineers

# Life at TypeSafe

We’re a small, flat, close-knit team dedicated to real-world impact preparing the world for Transformative AI. Our team works fully in-person in our San Francisco office near Embarcadero station. We love what we do and care about our work a lot.

We strive for excellence and craftsmanship and won't stop until we get there. When the team wins, we all win, and we enjoy collaborating and inspiring each other to grow as a team and as individuals.

We also value emotional honesty, kindness, and bringing your whole self to work. We build machines; we don't try to be machines.

We want you to be able to do the most impactful work of your career at TypeSafe and help define our future as a company.

We provide

• Competitive salary and equity
• 100% covered health insurance
• Daily lunch and dinner
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans