Senior Design Engineer

Meadow • New York, NY

57d • $147,000 - $202,000 • Remote

About The Position

As a Design Engineer at Meadow, you'll sit at the intersection of Product Design and Front-End Engineering to conceptualize and ship product that powers the student financial experience. Design at Meadow is AI-first and builder-led. We're looking for a Design Engineer who is excited to 1) use AI as a core part of how they design — prototyping early, testing with real customers, and staying involved through launch and iteration, and to 2) design for AI — building products that assume the system can understand context, take initiative, and collaborate with the user.

Requirements

• 4+ Years of Experience Across Product Design and Front-End Engineering
• Fluency in React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Semantic HTML, Modern CSS
• Active Use of AI Tools in Your Design Workflow (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex)
• Proven Success Owning Projects from Problem Definition → Launch & Iteration
• Proven Success Communicating & Collaborating with Engineering and Product
• Portfolio Showcasing High Visual and Interaction Craft

Nice To Haves

• Experience at an Early Stage Startup
• You're comfortable pointing out issues in our frontend UI and be proactive in how you'd fix them — considering things like accessibility, form validation, and other best practices.

Responsibilities

• Own Product Work End-to-End: You'll work in lockstep with Product and Engineering to define problems, explore solution spaces, validate concepts, and ship products.
• Prototype Using AI Tools: You'll use Cursor, Claude, and/or other AI tools to build and iterate on flows and interactions — then partner with Engineering to turn them into production-ready designs or pick up backend APIs and design bits of the frontend on top.
• Build Meadow's Design Engineering & Product Design Practice: We're a small team of builders who thrive on ownership. As our first Design Engineer, you'll help us think through how the whole team can best ship an accessible, beautiful, and usable frontend.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Equity
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (with HSA & FSA Plans Available)
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 1-2 Onsites Per Year
• Membership in an Ambitious, Kind, No-Drama Team

What This Job Offers

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