Design Engineer

Humanloop•San Francisco, CA

36d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Design Engineer, you'll bridge the gap between engineering and design—owning the craft of building elegant, high-performance UI and design systems that scale. You'll work across our TypeScript/React frontend and collaborate closely with product and backend engineers to shape the future of how AI teams build products. We’re a small, smart, and hardworking team operating at the frontier of AI. Our customers demand world-class performance, reliability, and usability, and we aim to set the standard for intuitive design that enables product leaders and non-technical subject matter experts to collaborate effectively with developers.

Requirements

Deep appreciation for great design and care about the finer details of UI/UX.
Comfortable designing interfaces and implementing them in code.
Experience building scalable design systems.
Capable in Figma.
Strong frontend engineering skills in TypeScript, React, and TailwindCSS (or equivalent modern stacks).
Excited by AI and its potential, and want to shape the way teams interact with it.
Ability to hold yourself and others to a high bar, striving for elegance and simplicity in design and code.
Thrive in a fast-moving startup environment and want to have real impact.
Communicate clearly, collaborate well, and enjoy engaging with users to improve the product.

Nice To Haves

Systems thinking.

Responsibilities

Designing and building high-quality, reusable UI components and design systems that scale.
Crafting seamless, beautiful user experiences that make complex AI workflows intuitive.
Bringing designs to life with polished, accessible, and performant front-end code.
Making strong calls on when to build in-house solutions versus leveraging existing tools.
Owning the end-to-end implementation of features that balance usability, aesthetics, and engineering efficiency.
Advocating for best practices in design, accessibility, and front-end architecture.
Engaging with users to understand their needs, ensuring the product is both functional and delightful.