Design Engineer

AI-Native • Design-Minded Builder • Customer Experience Owner

We're looking for AI Design Engineers based in India to join our team! We are looking for AI-native individuals with a deep passion for UX and design who blend strong consumer instincts with the execution chops of a strong engineer. This role is perfect for builders who thrive at the intersection of user experience, visual design, rapid prototyping, and shipping polished, delightful, customer-facing features.

You'll own problems and product development end-to-end — from understanding the customer need to crafting an intuitive, beautifully designed solution to shipping fast, reliable, AI-powered experiences. You won't be confined to "product," "design," or "engineering" boxes. You'll do all three. And you'll move fast.

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we're redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you'd bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How We Compete

• AI-native at every level - From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you're not wielding AI, you're not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity - Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free-market rigor - Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership - You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution - Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate both what you achieve and how you achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration - Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Apolitical - You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you're a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here.

Qualifications:

• Strong front-end engineering skills (React or similar), with a demonstrated eye for visual design, interaction design, and typography.
• Demonstrated ability to own a design problem from concept — wireframes, flows, prototypes — through shipped, polished solution.
• Experience building customer-facing products, design systems, internal tools, or prototypes with a strong emphasis on usability and visual craft.
• Comfort working across product, design, and engineering boundaries — writing specs, designing user flows, creating mockups/prototypes, and building the solution.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate design and development (e.g., AI design/prototyping tools, chat-based coding assistants, automation tools).
• Portfolio or examples demonstrating strong UX/UI sensibility and shipped, customer-facing design work.
• Excellent communication skills across cross-functional product, design, and engineering teams.
• A customer-obsessed mindset — grounding design decisions in user needs, usability research, and real behavior.
• Ability to move quickly, make sound design and engineering tradeoffs, and iterate based on user feedback and evidence.
• Familiarity with design tools (e.g., Figma or similar) and cloud environments (any major provider).
• Comfort analyzing usage data and qualitative feedback to identify friction points and guide design improvements.
• Experience working in fast-paced, highly iterative environments.

Responsibilities:

• Identify and deeply understand customer experience problems through user research, data, feedback, and direct observation.
• Define AI-powered features or UX improvements, including writing crisp problem statements, user flows, wireframes, and success criteria.
• Prototype and build end-to-end solutions, spanning front-end, interaction design, and AI-powered logic.
• Design and refine intuitive, visually polished interfaces that make complex AI-powered features feel simple and delightful.
• Integrate AI into products thoughtfully, prioritizing user value, usability, and reliable outcomes over novelty.
• Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality, well-designed features quickly.
• Own quality and craft, ensuring what you ship is fast, reliable, accessible, and delightful to use.
• Set up measurement and feedback loops (usability testing, analytics, user feedback) to continuously improve the experience.
• Operate like an owner, accountable for both the design quality and the impact of what you build.

Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:

• Competitive USD-Benchmarked Compensation: Earn a market-leading rate set in U.S. dollars, paid to you in local currency.
• 100% Remote (Home Country Only): Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
• Flexible Time Off: Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
• Local Holiday Pay: We honor your nation's official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
• Continuous Learning: Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
• Supercharge with AI: Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).
• Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture: Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.
• Make a Global Impact: Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.

The Bottom Line:

If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what's next, you'll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn't a traditional corporate environment - it's a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.