Design Engineer - Frontend for On-Device AI Interfaces | Equity

Base Compute; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Strong base salary

Direct influence on AI

Genuinely hard problems

Small team, fast iteration

Job summary

Base Compute is reimagining how AI runs on devices, building interfaces that empower private, offline intelligence. You’ll own the product’s frontend and influence how users interact with agentic AI running locally on user hardware.

We’re seeking a Design Engineer who blends taste with engineering skill to ship polished interfaces. You’ll design and implement new AI interfaces, drive product flows, and contribute to a cohesive design system as part of a small, fast-moving team in Melbourne (with

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production frontends.
• Expertise in TypeScript and React; strong typography and layout.
• Hands-on experience building products on top of LLMs.

Responsibilities

• New AI interfaces: invent patterns for models and agents; streaming tasks and user control.
• Product and interaction design: turn ideas into polished interfaces.
• Frontend engineering: build the interface end-to-end.
• Design systems: create a component library and visual language.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Typography

Layout

Interaction design

Figma

LLMs

Ownership

Animation

Desktop apps

Tools

Electron

Tauri

SwiftUI

Job description

Base Compute is reimagining how AI runs on devices, building interfaces that empower private, offline intelligence. You’ll own the product’s frontend and influence how users interact with agentic AI running locally on user hardware.

We’re seeking a Design Engineer who blends taste with engineering skill to ship polished interfaces. You’ll design and implement new AI interfaces, drive product flows, and contribute to a cohesive design system as part of a small, fast-moving team in Melbourne (with