Design Engineer

Position: Staff Design Engineer
Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

Our client is an applied AI research lab combining world‑class AI expertise—including alumni from Google Deep Mind—with exceptional product execution to bring AGI‑powered tools to finance.

As a Design Engineer, you will own how users experience complex AI systems, defining both the UX and the implementation in modern frontend technologies. You’ll be the bridge between cutting‑edge research and highly polished, intuitive interfaces that financial professionals can trust.

What you’ll do:

• Own the end-to-end user experience for core products, from early prototypes to polished, production‑ready interfaces.

• Build high‑quality, interactive frontends using React, Type Script, and Tailwind, making complex AI systems feel intuitive and trustworthy.

• Collaborate closely with researchers, PMs, and engineers to translate novel AI capabilities into clear and actionable workflows for users.

• Define and maintain the design system and component library, ensuring consistency, performance, and visual quality across all products.

• Run rapid experiments, gather user feedback, and iterate quickly, shaping product decisions with real‑world data and insights.

• Make strategic technical choices—refactoring or redesigning frontend architectures when it improves quality, speed, or maintainability.

• Have built high‑performance, polished web applications end‑to‑end, ideally in complex or data‑heavy domains.

• Are an expert in modern frontend technologies (Type Script, React, Tailwind, Next.js) and can translate high‑level product concepts into production‑ready interfaces.

• Can make non‑trivial backend changes (Node.js or Python) and implement small services when needed to support product features end‑to‑end.

• Are skilled in at least one statically typed language, care deeply about type safety across UI and APIs, and make technology choices with an eye toward maintainability and long‑term quality.

• Have deployed frontends or supporting services using Docker and Kubernetes on a major cloud provider—or can learn quickly.

• Use AI to accelerate your work—generating code, copy, or design variants— but critically review outputs to maintain UX quality and correctness.

• Thrive in high‑performing, cross‑disciplinary teams, enjoying collaboration with designers, researchers, and engineers.

• Love technically challenging problems at the intersection of interaction design, performance, and complex AI behavior.

Nice to have:

• Experience designing for professional or enterprise users (traders, analysts, operators).

• Experience with data visualization or building rich, real‑time interfaces.

• Previous early‑stage startup experience or experience as one of the first design/UX hires.

Compensation & setup:

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity upside

• Hybrid, primarily in‑office in San Francisco, working closely with founders and research team

• High‑ownership role with direct impact on product, design, and AI‑powered workflows

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• Information Technology

Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Vision insurance

• 401(k)

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