Design Engineer
CodeRabbit7 hours 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.
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About CodeRabbit
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