Design Engineer Jobs

About The Position

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.