Founding Design Engineer
$150k - $250kHIKINEX
Founding Design Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Compensation: $150,000–$250,000 Base + Equity (0.4–0.8%) About the Opportunity An early-stage, venture-backed AI startup is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to become its first design-focused engineering hire. This is a unique opportunity to own the end-to-end user experience for a highly technical AI platform, defining the product's design language while building production-ready frontend applications. Working directly with the founding team, you'll help shape the future of an AI-native enterprise platform by combining exceptional product design with hands‑on frontend engineering. What You'll Do Own product design and frontend implementation from concept to production. Design and build production‑ready interfaces using React and TypeScript . Establish the company's design language, design system, and UX patterns. Collaborate closely with founders to build intuitive experiences for complex technical workflows. Design for enterprise B2B software, platform products, and AI‑powered user experiences. What We're Looking For 1 - 5 years of experience in design, recent experience shipping frontend code in React/TypeScript Experience at a venture‑backed early‑stage startup or fast‑paced high‑growth company Has a self‑driven project with real users (portfolio, side project, or startup) Experience at an early‑stage startup or other fast‑paced environment. Experience designing technical products such as developer tools, enterprise SaaS, infrastructure, platform software, or AI products. Self‑starter who thrives in an ownership‑driven environment with minimal direction. Design/Arts/CS degree Skills Tech stack React, TypeScript, Figma, Tailwind CSS PLUS Next.js Figma Experience with design systems and component libraries. Familiarity with AI, agentic workflows, or Human‑Computer Interaction (HCI) principles. Visa Sponsorship The company can support: H-1B transfers O-1 visas TN visas J-1 visas Please note that new H-1B sponsorship is not available. Why Join? Be the first Design Engineer and help define the product from the ground up. Own both design and implementation without traditional design handoffs. Work directly with an experienced founding team in a collaborative, high‑impact environment. Receive competitive compensation and meaningful equity while helping build a category‑defining AI product. #J-18808-Ljbffr HIKINEX
- ..., slide deck, merchandise, or factory) should communicate the quality and ambition of our company behind it. As Orchard's Founding Design Engineer, you will establish the design function and own design across product, brand, marketing, software engineering, hardware, and...SuggestedWeekend work
Quiet Capital
San Francisco, CA2 days ago $180k - $220k
...About The Role This is a founding-level, high-ownership position sitting at the intersection of design and engineering. You’ll be the sole bar-raiser for frontend UX across a fast-moving, early-stage B2B SaaS company building an AI-powered pricing optimization platform...SuggestedRemote workClera
San Francisco, CA1 day ago$150k - $250k
...Founding Design Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Compensation: $150,000–$250,000 Base + Equity (0.4–0.8%) About the Opportunity An early-stage, venture-backed AI startup is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to become its first design-focused...SuggestedH1bHIKINEX
San Francisco, CA1 day ago- ...Design engineer who owns the full visual and interactive experience of Jinba's platform. You'll build our design system from the ground up... ...ship production code alongside the engineering team. This is a founding design role for someone who wants to shape how enterprise...Suggested
Jinba (YC W26)
San Francisco, CA1 day ago - ...of. We care obsessively about taste: in design, in product, in every detail. We're solving... ...of billion dollar companies. Design Engineering Video is the most powerful way humans tell... ...touch. It's the product. We're hiring a Founding Design Engineer who lives at that...Suggested
CH, Ltd.
San Francisco, CA2 days ago - ...voice AI behaves in live customer conversations, and measure the impact on real business outcomes. The role We're hiring a founding design engineer to own the experience of BotBot and the system we run the company on. Our products need interfaces for work that...Remote work
BotBot
San Francisco, CA1 day ago $180k - $220k
...Job Description Job Description About the Role This is a founding-level frontend role at a seed-stage B2B SaaS startup building an... ...pricing intelligence platform. You'll own the entire frontend design system — tokens, component library, and interface patterns — ensuring...Clera
San Francisco, CA6 days ago$100k - $150k
.... Work that used to take teams of lawyers weeks now happens in minutes. YC S24, founded by a former M&A attorney from Kirkland & Ellis and Gunderson Dettmer. We're hiring a design engineer to own how the product looks, feels, and works. You'll design features in Figma,...- ...opportunity. If you’re hungry to take ownership and build systems that matter, this is it. About The Role We’re hiring a Design Engineer to join our founding team in building the future of healthcare compliance AI. You’ll work directly with the founders, owning entire...Night shift
$180k - $220k
...built on deep pricing experience from our founding team who have run over 150 pricing... ...assembled our team of 8 (pricing experts and engineers) to deliver that capability. Our main... ...Coherence is, and this role owns it: the design tokens, the component library, the frontend...Work experience placementWork at officeImmediate startVisa sponsorshipFlexible hours$120k - $180k
...About the Role This is a founding product engineering role at an early-stage AI startup transforming how the construction industry handles blueprint... ...end-to-end with direct customer engagement. Comfort designing architecture and building products from scratch (0-to-1...Full timeWork at officeRelocation$140k - $180k
...About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage legaltech startup combining AI agents with licensed attorneys to transform how commercial contracts are reviewed, negotiated, and drafted. You'll build core product features from the ground up, working...Full timeContract work$200k - $250k
...About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building an AI-driven pricing and monetization platform... ...are central to success here. What You'll Do Scope, design, build, and iterate on whole product modules independently,...Full timeContract workRemote work- ...every day. Free lunch and dinners, competitive salary and equity. Flexible health coverage and 401K matching. We’re looking for a design engineer who obsesses over how software looks and feels to join us in San Francisco. You’ll own the product surface end-to-end–from...Flexible hours
CircleBack Inc
San Francisco, CA1 day ago $140k - $180k
...Job Description Job Description About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage legal AI company, where you'll build core product features from the ground up alongside attorneys and AI engineers. You'll help shape the engineering culture and technical...Full timeContract workClera
San Francisco, CA6 days ago$190k - $210k
...well-funded, early-stage fintech startup is looking for a Founding Product Engineer to join a small, senior team building a new kind of collaborative... ...with a 40,000+ person waitlist. What You'll Do Design, develop, and deliver features, fixes, and improvements...Remote workClera
San Francisco, CA6 days ago$150k - $200k
...to support and grow America's industrial GDP. We are hiring a founding product engineer to lead core 0-to-1 builds . The successful candidate will own the full-stack product lifecycle : scoping, designing, shipping, and iterating in the field. This role requires travel...Work at officeRemote workThe Misch Group
San Francisco, CA8 days ago- ...is poised for nationwide scale, to hire an entrepreneurial Founding Product Engineer in San Francisco. As the third engineering hire, you... ...business contexts, and build solutions independently. Shape Design & APIs: Partner with backend engineers on API contracts...
Success Matcher Recruitment
San Francisco, CA6 days ago $200k - $250k
...discount governance, and CPQ workflows. We're looking for a Founding Product Engineer to own entire product modules end-to-end, work directly... ...Financial logic correctness, AI-native tooling, and clean API design are first-class priorities here. What You'll Do Own...Remote workVisa sponsorshipClera
San Francisco, CA6 days ago$120k - $180k
...Description Job Description About the Role This is a founding product engineering role at a seed-stage AI/construction-tech startup,... ...-to-end and engaging directly with customers. Comfort designing architecture and building products from scratch (0-to-1 mindset...RelocationVisa sponsorshipClera
San Francisco, CA6 days ago- Founding Product Engineer — Smart Bricks (USA Launch) Location: San Francisco, CA Type: Full-time Team: Founding Team (USA) Smart Bricks is building the world’s AI-native real estate investment infrastructure. Think of us as Bloomberg + Robinhood for global real estate...Full time
- Open call for Founders / Founding Teams (Product Management / Engineering roles) In 1973 at Xerox PARC, Bob Metcalfe sketched a way for many computers to share a single wire — borrowing the throughput math from his study of Hawaii's ALOHAnet — and he and David Boggs built...
$120k - $160k
...University of Technology at 15. Joined Taobao at 17. At Alibaba, architected the core recommendation engine serving 500M daily users. What You'll Do: This is the first design hire at Sirius, and we're looking for an engineer first - someone who ships production UI...Full timeFlexible hours$500 per month
...on your Mac. We launched a few months ago, and are now used by engineers at leading companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and Y... ...beautiful San Francisco office About you We’re looking for a design engineer who can help us create beautiful and intuitive interfaces...Work at office- A software engineering company in San Francisco is looking for a founding engineer to work across the entire software stack. The ideal candidate will have deep experience in the Typescript ecosystem and strong CS fundamentals. Responsibilities include engaging with customers...Relocation
- Mondrio is hiring a Design Engineer to lead the design system, component library, and frontend patterns. You’ll work with the executive team and engineers to ship features with cohesive UX, accessibility, and performance. This role sits in a fast-growing startup with in...Work at office
- ...startup, revolutionizing the computing landscape, is looking to hire a Principal Product and Application Security Engineer to join their team as a founding engineer. This startup has hit a $1B valuation, closed their Series A funding, and has been around for 4 years. They...Full time
$150k - $240k
...recruitment firm partnering with a fast-growing, design-forward AI startup transforming how... ...discussed across an organization. Founded by experienced operators from companies... ...Francisco) Experience: 2‑5 years in Design Engineering / Product Design + Frontend Platform: Web...Crossing Hurdles
San Francisco, CA1 day ago- ...Hi I’m Abhik, Ashby's Co-Founder and VP of Engineering. This role is close to my heart because, as someone who can both design and code, it’s where I’ve always done my best... ...excellence in both is where magic happens. I found that when I put my best effort into both the...Full timeInternshipFlexible hours
Ashby
San Francisco, CA3 days ago - ...to interact with their doctor's office. Founded by Steijn Pelle (helped Robinhood and Coinbase... ...in annual revenue) and Frédéric Renken (engineer turned first product hire at Superhuman),... ...'s office. About the role We're hiring a design-minded engineer to build the control...Work at office
Lassie
San Francisco, CA1 day ago
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