Design Engineer

Sunset • New York, NY

7d

About The Position

Sunset is a company founded to help founders and businesses unlock a new revenue stream by leveraging their proprietary data as training data for frontier AI models. The company has experienced rapid growth and is seeking individuals who want to build a category-defining business from the ground up. This role is a true design-engineering position where the individual will own the entire process from initial concept to polished production result, working with complex systems but ensuring the product simplifies this complexity for the user. The initial focus will be on provider onboarding and connection status within the Data Portal, improving the user experience from setup to recovery from failures.

Requirements

• At least three years of professional experience designing and building digital products
• Equally credible in interaction design and production frontend code, including TypeScript, React, and CSS
• Use code as a design material and can explore several interaction directions quickly without treating every prototype as production software
• Taken ambiguous product problems from research and framing through implementation, measurement, and iteration
• Can make complex state understandable without hiding exceptions, uncertainty, permissions, or recovery
• Strong visual and interaction craft and care about accessibility, responsive behavior, motion, and the details of real use
• Can build reusable systems without turning every product decision into a design-system project
• Startup experience and enjoy broad ownership, changing context, and building without a complete specification
• Use modern AI tools fluently, verify their output, and have a point of view about when AI improves or weakens a product experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with enterprise software, data connections, onboarding, integrations, files, documents, or long-running workflows
• Experience designing legal, financial, compliance-sensitive, or otherwise high-trust products
• Experience with Storybook, design tokens, component libraries, visual regression testing, or frontend quality systems
• Deep experience with typography, layout, responsive systems, motion, animation, browser behavior, or advanced interaction design
• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows with transparency, evaluation, human handoff, and recovery
• Experience using synthetic states, seeded failures, or simulation to test interaction quality beyond the happy path

Responsibilities

• Study how customers and our team acquire enterprise work data, recover from failed connections, and move through dissolution
• Turn branching, long-running, and exception-heavy workflows into clear information architecture, interaction models, and production interfaces
• Explore new flows at the fidelity the question requires, moving quickly from sketches or Figma into coded interactions with realistic state
• Build production-quality interfaces in TypeScript and React, including responsive behavior, accessibility, tests, instrumentation, and failure states
• Continuously improve visual hierarchy, layout, copy, motion, affordances, and flow across existing product surfaces, not only newly assigned features
• Design the moments that create trust: progress, provenance, permissions, uncertainty, errors, recovery, human handoff, and consequential confirmation
• Work directly with customers, domain experts, Product, and Engineering to test assumptions before polishing the wrong solution
• Create reusable components and interaction patterns that make new providers and workflows coherent by default
• Use AI deeply in research, prototyping, implementation, testing, and product experiences while verifying its output and designing clear human control

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed