Design Engineer Lead - USA

Inworld AI • Mountain View, CA

75d • $180,000 - $260,000

About The Position

At Inworld, we believe that the benefits of AI should extend beyond business workflows to the applications and experiences that we enjoy every day. We began by pushing the frontier of lifelike, interactive characters for games and entertainment, pioneering realtime conversational AI at scale. Today, we apply that expertise to provide the multimodal models, pipelines and tools needed to build and evolve consumer-scale, real-time conversational AI applications across learning, health, social, assistants, games and media. We're looking for a highly skilled Design Engineer Lead to join our team in the Bay Area. You will work closely with our Product and Engineering teams to shape the end-to-end user experience, crafting intuitive, polished interactions that delight our developer customer base. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable translating ideas into prototypes and production-ready designs as they are implementing them in code to bring that vision to life. Your work will directly influence how users experience our technology, defining new design patterns for cutting-edge AI solutions and helping make advanced capabilities feel accessible and intuitive.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in product design, user experience (UX) design, and front-end engineering.
• A portfolio showcasing strong design principles and a deep understanding of user-centered design.
• Proficiency in Figma and modern design workflows.
• Fluent in modern front-end tech, including JavaScript, TypeScript, and React.
• Experience with popular frontend tools and libraries (MUI, Emotion, Next.js, and Tailwind, etc).
• Clear communicator who enjoys working across design, product, and engineering.
• Thrive when tackling different projects at once in a dynamic setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design process from concept to final product, including creating user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Implement designs in code (React, TypeScript, etc.), ensuring that what you ship matches the vision with polish and precision.
• Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to translate complex AI capabilities into intuitive, developer-friendly experiences.
• Continuously test, learn, and iterate, using feedback and data to refine and improve the user experience.
• Champion design quality and user empathy, shaping both the product and the way we build it.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $180,000 - $260,000
• Bonus
• Equity
• Benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Publishing Industries
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees