Design Engineer Intern

Simular • Palo Alto, CA

4d

About The Position

Designing for autonomous agents is genuinely unsolved. When software acts on its own, the usual patterns stop working: how does someone watch an agent, trust it, correct it, or take back control? There's no established playbook, which makes this an unusually interesting place to design. You'll work on real product surfaces that ship to users, with the support of an experienced team.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• A portfolio showing original thinking, not just competent execution of familiar patterns
• Fluent in Figma and comfortable prototyping interaction and motion
• Can build what you design: comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS or React, or you vibe-code your way to a working prototype
• AI-fluent: you use AI tools daily in your design and building workflow, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don't
• Can explain why you made a decision, not just present the outcome
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can push a direction forward without a detailed brief
• Give and receive critique well

Nice To Haves

• Motion design
• Experience designing for AI products
• A shipped side project people actually use

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end product surfaces for agent experiences, from concept through shipped interface
• Explore new interaction models for how people observe, guide, and interrupt autonomous agents
• Build working prototypes in code, not just clickable mockups, so ideas get tested against reality early
• Use AI tools aggressively to compress the distance between an idea and something running
• Run lightweight user testing and turn what you learn into design decisions
• Contribute to and help maintain our design system for consistency across the product
• Work closely with engineers so your designs survive contact with implementation
• Care about craft: spacing, motion, states, and the details most people never consciously notice

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern