Design Engineer; Front End & Experiential Web
Listed on 2026-01-12
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Design & Architecture
UI/UX Design, Digital Media / Production, Web Developer
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
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Turn Figma frames, motion studies, or half‑sketched 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 high‑performance Type Script/React views and canvases. Polish micro‑interactions, 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 play‑tests, and surface interaction insights that reshape the roadmap.
2+ years of experience in design engineering
Write Type Script 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, React‑Three‑Fiber, or Babylon.js.
Experience bridging ML outputs into interactive UIs
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