Job Details

We're assisting a well-established startup with their search for a design engineer. Their products are AI creative tools that shorten the distance between concepts and creation. The role will work in the SF office 4 days a week and 1 day remotely.

What you'll do:

• 40% Prototype the unheard-of: Turn Figma frames, motion studies, or halfsketched ideas into live demos within hours. Throw them away, refine, or harden whatever best answers the design question.
• 40% Build & ship user-facing features: Craft highperformance TypeScript/React views and canvases. Polish microinteractions, motion, and accessibility until they "disappear" into the experience.
• 15% Evolve the design system: Extend the component library, tokens, and animation primitives so the whole team moves fast and coherently.
• 5% Design partnership: Sit in crits, run designer playtests, and surface interaction insights that reshape the roadmap.

• 2+ years of experience in design engineering
• Write TypeScript like a first language and have shipped complex SPAs (React, Solid, or similar) to production without losing pixel fidelity
• Startup experience

• Knowledge of CNC / CAD / CAM pipelines or an industrial-design background

• Familiarity with Three.js, ReactThreeFiber, or Babylon.js.
• Experience bridging ML outputs into interactive UIs