Design Engineer Intern

Gumloop • San Francisco, CA

2d

About The Position

We're looking for a Product Design Engineering Intern to help shape, design, and build high-craft product experiences end to end. This role sits at the intersection of product, design, and engineering. You'll contribute to key user-facing surfaces from early concept through final implementation, developing your product judgment, interaction design instincts, and frontend skills while working on problems that matter. The ideal candidate is curious, high-ownership, and comfortable operating with some ambiguity. You don't need to have done this before at scale, but you should be able to take a product problem, reason through the UX, and start building. You'll also contribute to our design system and help establish reusable patterns that make the product better over time. This is a high-impact internship for someone who wants real influence over what we build, how it works, and how it feels. You won't be doing busywork.

Requirements

• Currently in your final year of study in design, computer science, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with TypeScript, React, and modern frontend development, through coursework, personal projects, or prior internships.
• Some exposure to design systems, component libraries, or reusable frontend patterns.
• Strong product intuition and an ability to make thoughtful UX decisions, even with limited guidance.
• A portfolio or work samples that demonstrate both design sensibility and frontend execution.
• Care for craft beyond the obvious: you sweat the details others miss.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Tailwind CSS, Next.js, TanStack Query, or similar modern frontend tooling.
• Familiarity with Figma or other design tools for exploring and communicating ideas.
• Interest in developer tools, technical products, or AI-native products.
• Any full-stack exposure, especially enough backend fluency to unblock your own product work.

Responsibilities

• Design and build polished, user-facing product experiences across core surfaces of the product.
• Contribute to features end to end, from UX exploration through implementation and iteration, with guidance from the team.
• Use layout, interaction design, and motion to make powerful workflows feel intuitive and fast.
• Contribute to our design system, component library, and frontend patterns.
• Work closely with product, design, and engineering to turn ambiguous ideas into simple, high-quality experiences.
• Bring care and craft to the details: accessibility, performance, reliability, and edge cases.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed