Design Engineer
Applied Compute3 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build production-quality UI components and interactions for training, evaluation, and agent workflows.
- Own the quality of UI implementation across the platform.
- Build visualization and developer experience surfaces that help customers understand, debug, and trust improving models.
- Extend the product design language to the website and public presence.
- Create product demos, visuals, decks, and other sales collateral for the GTM team.
- Contribute to design systems and component libraries across the product, website, and collateral.
- Prototype, build, and polish product surfaces in collaboration with the founding team and customers.
Requirements
- Strong front-end or design engineering skills with TypeScript, React, CSS, and animations.
- Experience building polished, production-quality user interfaces.
- Strong product taste and clear opinions about software experience.
- Ability to prototype ideas quickly in hours rather than days.
- Systems thinking and the ability to build reusable, maintainable UI.
- Comfort working directly with customers and the founding team in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
- Experience with data visualization or complex technical UIs is a plus.
- Experience with observability, debugging, or evaluation interfaces is a plus.
- Background at high-craft product companies or developer tooling startups is a plus.
- Experience building AI-powered products or agent systems is a plus.
- Experience working closely with designers or operating as a design-minded engineer is a plus.
Benefits
- The role is based in San Francisco and works from the company's office in the Mission.
- Competitive compensation and equity are offered.
- Generous health benefits are provided.
- Unlimited PTO is offered.
- Paid parental leave is provided.
- Daily lunches and dinners are provided.
- Transportation and relocation support are available.
- Retirement plans are offered.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
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About Applied Compute
Applied Compute builds enterprise AI systems that turn internal knowledge into custom models and deployable agent workforces. Its platform and forward-deployed teams create evals, train models on proprietary data, and run continually learning agents inside customer environments. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, serving enterprises that want in-house, domain-specific AI rather than generic foundation models.