Design Engineer

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

[hidden] is building the future of coding. Our AI code editor and agents are just the beginning – we're solving the hardest engineering and design problems in AI automating coding, and making these capabilities accessible to everyone.

About the role

We're looking for a design engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll work directly with the founding team to prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make [hidden] magical. This role is perfect for someone who thinks like a designer but builds like an engineer – or vice versa.

What you'll do

• Build production-quality UI components and interactions that delight users

• Rapidly prototype new concepts and features to validate ideas before full implementation

• Bridge the gap between design and engineering – translating designs into code and pushing design through technical innovation

• Own the quality of UI implementation across the product, ensuring pixel-perfect execution and smooth interactions

• Collaborate with designers and engineers to define what's possible and push the boundaries of the product

• Contribute to design systems and component libraries that enable the team to ship faster

You might be a fit if

• You're equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor

• You have strong front-end engineering skills (TypeScript, React, SolidJS, CSS, animations)

• You have an eye for design details and care deeply about craft

• You've shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%

• You can move fast – prototyping ideas in hours, not days

• You think in systems and can build reusable, maintainable UI components

• You're excited about AI and want to help define new interaction paradigms

Nice to have

• Experience building developer tools or technical products

• Background in design or formal design training

• Experience with Electron, native UI frameworks, or building cross-platform apps

• Understanding of code editors, IDEs, or programming environments