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Member of Technical Staff, Design & Frontend Engineer

San Francisco, CA
10 months ago
🤖 AI-First🛠️ Cursor-friendly💻 Open Source
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Specifically calls out using vibe-coding platforms alongside Figma to communicate and validate ideas — expects vibe-style prototyping in the design workflow.

About the Role

Design & Frontend Engineer (Member of Technical Staff) responsible for owning end-to-end user experiences: making product decisions, building and shipping frontend features, and iterating from direct customer feedback. The role combines product design sensibility with TypeScript/React engineering to shape product direction for an AI agent platform.

Job Description

Role

As a Design Engineer (Member of Technical Staff) you will own user experiences end-to-end — from product decisions and prototyping to frontend engineering and iteration based on real customer feedback. You will work directly with customers, influence product direction, and ship production-facing interfaces used by large AI companies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Ship full features independently: design, engineer, and iterate based on user feedback
  • Work directly with customers to understand needs and validate solutions
  • Influence product direction using design and technical insights
  • Build visible product features that will be used by customers within days

Requirements

  • Strong design sensibility and product intuition
  • 3+ years building user-facing products with TypeScript and modern front-end frameworks
  • Experience with React and frameworks like Next.js (or similar)
  • Ability to communicate and validate ideas using tools such as Figma or vibe-coding platforms
  • Customer empathy and high ownership of end-to-end problems

Nice-to-haves

  • Open source contributions or public projects demonstrating craft
  • Experience building AI products or developer tools
  • Strong opinions on product experience and UX

Why this role

  • High impact: work will be used by millions of users at leading AI and tech companies
  • Learning: opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technology with a small, technical team
  • Ownership & growth: significant product influence and a technical leadership track from day one

Tech Stack

FigmaTypeScriptReactNext.jsvibe-coding platforms

Skills

Product DesignFrontend EngineeringCustomer EmpathyOwnershipUser ResearchPrototypingCollaborationProduct StrategyIterative DevelopmentCommunication

Experience Level

Mid

Employment Type

Full-time

Benefits

  • High impact (work used by millions)
  • Learning opportunities with cutting-edge AI technology
  • Ownership over product and technical direction
  • Growth / technical leadership track