Frontend Product Engineer

Sentient Industries•Austin, TX

7d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is for a Frontend Product Engineer who will be responsible for building and maintaining responsive, performant interfaces for SENTIENT OS and AERIS. This includes consoles, dashboards, configuration, and control UIs. The engineer will implement components, layout systems, and interaction patterns using modern frameworks like React/Next.js. They will also integrate front-end with back-end APIs and data sources, keep the codebase modular and reusable, and turn product concepts into usable interfaces. Additionally, the role involves defining and maintaining visual guidelines, building a shared design system and component library, creating digital and print collateral, and owning the front-end of the marketing website. Collaboration with the founder/CTO and core engineering team is essential, as is advocating for the user in a technical environment. This is an Austin, TX-based position, and relocation assistance/visa sponsorship is not available.

Requirements

Strong front-end engineering with modern JavaScript and a major framework (React/Next.js or equivalent).
Demonstrable UX/UI work: web apps, dashboards, or other complex interfaces.
Solid visual design foundation: layout, typography, color, composition, iconography.
Experience creating or maintaining a design system or component library.
Ability to produce graphic assets, icons, diagrams, illustrations, without a separate designer.
Experience designing for print or export-ready print/PDF assets: spec sheets, one-pagers, brochures, business cards, with working knowledge of bleed, margins, resolution, and color spaces.
Comfortable with APIs, data structures, system behavior.
Clear communication with technical stakeholders, and the judgment to turn loose requirements into usable UI and accurate collateral.
Must be able to pass a federal background check.
Authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

Interfaces for complex operational domains: defense, industrial, robotics, or energy.
Data visualization and real-time interfaces.
Documentation sites, developer platforms, or admin consoles.
Git-centric workflows.
Familiarity with export-control or markings requirements on customer-facing material.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain responsive, performant interfaces for SENTIENT OS and AERIS: consoles, dashboards, configuration and control UIs.
Implement components, layout systems, and interaction patterns in a modern framework (React/Next.js or equivalent).
Integrate front-end with back-end APIs and data sources alongside the core engineering team.
Keep the codebase modular and reusable through a component library, clear state management, and clean architecture.
Turn product concepts and operator workflows into interfaces people can use under pressure.
Produce user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups.
Design interaction models for complex system state: alerts, timelines, mission views, sensor and device status, configuration flows.
Run lightweight usability validation through internal demos and fast feedback cycles, then iterate on real usage.
Define, maintain, and evolve Sentient's visual guidelines: typography, color, spacing, iconography, and motion.
Build and maintain one shared design system and component library used across the web site, internal OS, software products, internal tools, and print collateral.
Hold visual consistency across digital and physical surfaces, refining the guidelines as the product family grows.
Create and manage graphic assets, icons, diagrams, visual metaphors, data visualizations, that hold up on screen and in print.
Own templates for spec sheets, product one-pagers, pamphlets, business cards, banners, and event leave-behinds.
Produce print-ready files with correct bleed, margins, resolution, and color space, and coordinate with print vendors on proofs.
Turn engineering data, specifications, performance curves, interface drawings, into clear, accurate customer-facing sheets.
Keep a versioned library of current collateral so business development always pulls the approved file.
Own the front-end of the marketing website: layout, navigation, responsiveness, and performance.
Ship new pages and sections for product launches, use cases, and documentation.
Work with leadership on content structure and information hierarchy so the product narrative reads clearly.
Hold the website to the same design system and brand standards as the products.
Work directly with the founder/CTO and core engineering team so UI decisions match product architecture and real system capability.
Translate technical constraints and system behavior into visual affordances and useful user feedback.
Establish lightweight process, design reviews, component documentation, PR guidelines, that keeps the front-end clean as the team scales.
Advocate for the user in a highly technical, mission-driven environment.