Design Engineer
CodeRabbit2 months ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build production-quality UI components and interactions for AI code review experiences.
- Rapidly prototype emerging AI experiences such as real-time review, conversational feedback, and agentic workflows.
- Translate high-fidelity designs into pixel-perfect frontend code and advance designs through technical innovation.
- Own UI implementation quality, including performance, motion, micro-interactions, and edge cases.
- Create and maintain reusable design-system components across the web, IDE extensions, Git platforms, and CLI surfaces.
- Implement performant visualizations for code quality metrics, dependency graphs, and AI-generated insights.
- Collaborate with design, engineering, and AI teams to define and ship new interaction paradigms for developer tools.
Requirements
- 2–5+ years of experience in design engineering, frontend, or product design roles.
- Portfolio or shipped work demonstrating both engineering rigor and visual craft.
- Strong frontend engineering skills in TypeScript, React, CSS, and animation.
- Fluency in Figma and the ability to work credibly across design and engineering.
- Experience shipping complex technical products end-to-end in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Experience building or contributing to design systems and component libraries across multiple platforms.
- Strong command of modern frontend and design tooling.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across cross-functional teams.
- Experience at developer-focused companies or building developer tools is a plus.
- Background in or strong understanding of software development and Git workflows is a plus.
- Experience with IDE extensions such as VS Code or JetBrains, Electron, or cross-platform applications is a plus.
- Experience designing or building AI/ML-powered interfaces, motion design, or micro-interactions is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source projects or design systems are a plus.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and benefits.
- Professional development resources and opportunities.
- Collaborative, high-velocity environment working with engineers and AI researchers.
- Opportunity to define the design language for an AI product used by millions of developers.
Tech Stack
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About CodeRabbit
CodeRabbit builds an AI-powered code review platform for software development teams, integrating with Git hosts, IDEs, and CI to review pull requests and commits, surface issues, and suggest fixes. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, the privately held company is SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR compliant and lists customers such as The Economist and Life360.