Founding Design Engineer

Sirius • San Francisco, CA

4d • Onsite

About The Position

We're on a mission to make subscriber churn a solved problem. Backed by a16z Speedrun, we build AI agents that help consumer subscription brands — like Higgsfield and Promova — retain more users, extend lifetime value, and grow fast. We're an incredibly driven team working on a problem that affects every consumer on the planet. If that sounds like your kind of thing, we'd love to meet you. Our co-founders are Azamat Khamidov and Benazir Toleubekova . Azamat built a Telegram AI product from zero to five million users in four months, the first acquisition inside Telegram. Benazir received a full scholarship to Beijing University of Technology at 15. Joined Taobao at 17. At Alibaba, architected the core recommendation engine serving 500M daily users. This is the first design hire at Sirius, and we're looking for an engineer first — someone who ships production UI themselves and treats design as their specialty within that, not a separate discipline handed off to someone else. You'll set the visual and interaction language for everything we build, and then you'll write the TypeScript that makes it real. You'll be working on a product that touches real revenue for real companies, which means your decisions matter in ways you'll be able to see and measure.

Requirements

• 3+ years of product design experience — enough that you've shipped something real and learned from what didn't land
• Figma fluency: components, variables, auto-layout, prototyping
• Working proficiency in TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks — you can take a design from prototype to shipped UI yourself
• Strong programming skills
• Strong UI/UX design experience
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, or equivalent hands-on experience
• Based in San Francisco or able to be here full-time.
• We're not offering visa sponsorship at this time.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product surfaces end to end — from Figma prototype to shipped, production-ready UI in our codebase
• Build and own the design system in code — components, tokens, and the frontend architecture that keeps it consistent as we scale
• Work daily in Claude Code and TypeScript to prototype and ship production-ready UI — you're not handing off to an engineer, you're often the one shipping it
• Partner with founders on product direction, bringing a designer's perspective to strategy early — not just execution
• Move fast enough to keep pace with a small team, but carefully enough that the quality standard stays high

Benefits

• Flexible healthcare: We offer flexible spending to direct your benefits toward what matters most to you and your family.
• Lunch, coffee & snacks: Daily lunch, plus coffee, tea, and snacks to keep you going.
• Time off that's actually off: Take the time you need to show up as your best self. We mean it.
• Company Events: We work hard and celebrate our wins.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level