Design Engineer
Dedalus Labs
Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs
Mission
Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.
We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.
You might be a fit if you
- Are obsessive about user experience.
- Measure thrice, cut once.
- Sweat the small details.
- Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.
- Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.
- Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.
- Think the internet should be faster.
- Have shipped amazing work.
- Understand why a spring beats a tween.
- Care about optimal bundling strategies.
- View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.
- Believe actions speak louder than words.
- Are high agency and fiercely independent.
- Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
- Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
- Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
- Go above and beyond in everything you do.
What we look for
- Fluency with AI coding tools.
- Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
- Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.
- Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.
- Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.
- Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.
- Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.
- Responsive, accessible work.
- Modern CSS you are a little smug about.
Nice-to-have
- Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.
- High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the oxc stack, etc.
- Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.
- Open-source contributions we can look at.
- Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.
- Experience writing APIs.
- Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.
- Strong knowledge of types.
- Interest in category theory.
Taste
You know what good looks like.
Logistics
- In person in San Francisco.
- Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.
- We sponsor visas.
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