Design Engineer

HUD•Singapore, CA

17d•$100,000 - $225,000

About The Position

HUD is seeking a Design Engineer to design and build experiences across its products. The role focuses on helping people create and evaluate environments, understand agent behavior, improve training data, and use results to make decisions. The work involves making technically dense workflows clear while retaining important detail. The Design Engineer will talk with users, collaborate with research and engineering, and ship interfaces that improve through use and feedback. The role combines practical execution with product judgment about how to present information, explain results, and give users control.

Requirements

Strong product and interaction design judgment, especially for complex tools or workflows.
Front-end engineering skills and the ability to turn designs into working product interfaces.
A record of shipping products, learning from users, and improving what was built.
Ability to understand technical concepts well enough to present them clearly to users.
Good judgment about when to ship quickly and when an experience needs more care.
Clear communication and comfort working closely with engineers, researchers, and users.
Technical aptitude and learning potential; candidates are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet all criteria.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing developer tools, data-rich products, or research software.
Familiarity with AI agents, evaluations, reinforcement learning, or training data.
Experience creating reusable interface patterns as a product grows.
Experience working independently in an early-stage company.

Responsibilities

Design and build interfaces across HUD’s platform and marketplace, from early concepts through shipped product.
Make agent runs, evaluation results, reward signals, and quality feedback understandable and actionable.
Work with research and engineering to turn complex reinforcement learning and evaluation workflows into useful tools.
Talk with users, observe where they struggle, and use those findings to improve the product.
Develop thoughtful interaction patterns and maintain a high bar for usability, visual quality, and implementation.

Benefits

Competitive compensation.
100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for US and Singapore employees.
Lunch and dinner for in-office employees.
Company-wide holiday break from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day, in addition to PTO and paid holidays.
401(k) with a 4% match.
Equinox membership and commuter benefits for US employees.
Health and wellness stipend for Singapore employees.
Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, and other tools.
Two top-floor offices in San Francisco’s Union Square and Singapore’s Raffles Place.
Annual travel budget to visit either office.
Relocation and visa support for strong full-time candidates moving to the US or Singapore.