Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Embed with staff at engineering firms alongside the founders; watch how they actually work, then come back and design and build against what you saw
• Own the product surface end-to-end—from interaction design and prototyping through shipping the production front-end yourself
• Establish and own our design system: the components, patterns, and primitives that have to stay coherent as we compound products across acquisitions
• Define the interaction patterns for an AI-native platform—streaming and latency, human-in-the-loop review, provenance and citations, and making agent behavior transparent enough to trust
• Collaborate directly with the CTO on product direction, culture, and what we'll build next

About the Opportunity

As a

Design Engineer, you'll work directly with the CTO to own how that intelligence becomes something engineers actually trust and use. The hard part isn't only modeling the data—it's making non-deterministic, agentic systems legible to people who have never worked with a software company before. You own the surface where that trust is won or lost. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero—engaging with product strategy, firm acquisitions, and architecture decisions—on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

Ask Why

We have a beginner’s mind, incessantly ask questions, and share our success with others. We always want to know what we can be doing better.

Read the Room

We read the situation and meet people where they are, whether that's a counterparty, a client, or each other. We listen first and understand how our words and actions impact one another.

Get on a Flight

We have dogged persistence. We operate with a sense of urgency with our work and careers, and we want to push and be pushed.

What we look for

Strong design taste and the engineering chops to ship it yourself in production (React/TypeScript or equivalent)—you don't hand off to someone else to build

Has built and maintained a design system that more than one product or team depended on

Has real reps designing UX for AI-native products and is comfortable with the problems that don't exist in traditional software: non-determinism, streaming output, uncertainty, agentic flows, and earning user trust in machine output

Has a deep curiosity for how things work (an organization, a workflow, a market)

Isn't afraid to expose their ignorance and is constantly asking why

Has the poise and communication skills to earn trust with people who've never worked with a tech company before

Can sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build

Is willing to get on a plane with us

Is not above any task: up to draw the icon set, write the component, sit beside a user and watch them click, or wire up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea fast.

Compensation

• Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
• Founding equity, scaled to scope

Health Insurance

Full healthcare, medical and dental

Retirement

401(k)

PTO

Flexible time off

Travel

Company-paid

Office

HQ in New York City

Process

Our process takes about 2 weeks: a conversation with Tom or Mayank, a second founder conversation, a 60 minute technical interview, followed by a work trial where you'll get to meet the rest of the team and build with us for a day.