Design Engineer

Dedalus Labs•San Francisco, CA

19d•Hybrid

About The Position

Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs Mission Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents. We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.

Requirements

Obsessive about user experience.
Measure thrice, cut once.
Sweat the small details.
Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.
Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.
Strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.
Think the internet should be faster.
Shipped amazing work.
Understand why a spring beats a tween.
Care about optimal bundling strategies.
View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.
Believe actions speak louder than words.
High agency and fiercely independent.
Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
Competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
Hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
Go above and beyond in everything you do.
Fluency with AI coding tools.
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.
Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.
Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.
Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.
Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.
Responsive, accessible work.
Modern CSS you are a little smug about.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.
High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the oxc stack, etc.
Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.
Open-source contributions we can look at.
Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.
Experience writing APIs.
Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.
Strong knowledge of types.
Interest in category theory.
Taste: You know what good looks like.