Design Engineer

Dedalus LabsSan Francisco, CA
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.

Responsibilities

  • Build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.
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