Founding Design Engineer arbeitnow Bowatt Germany · 10/9/2026

Primetime; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible work location (remote/hybrid/

Top-tier hardware

Competitive salary €65,000-€100,000

Job summary

BoWatt is seeking an engineer-turned-designer or designer-turned-engineer to define and implement our design system with the product team and to improve the UI/UX of our platform.

You will build and ship features across our React/TypeScript/Tailwind frontend, collaborating closely with product, engineering and customer success. This role offers flexibility to work fully remote, hybrid, or onsite from Germany, with equity and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience shipping frontend production code.
• 3+ years of experience designing for the web.
• Portfolio of projects showing product sense and design taste.
• Based in Germany with the right to work here.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement our design system together with the product team.
• Improve the overall UI/UX of our platform.
• You will design beautiful user experiences for upcoming features and ship frontend code.
• Own your work and collaborate closely with product, engineering and customer success.

Skills

Frontend development

UI/UX design

Design systems

Portfolio review

Tools

React

TypeScript

Tailwind CSS

Job description

BoWatt is building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing. We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years. This will unlock massive value across complex manufacturing industries. Cars. Planes. Rockets. Factories. Chips. Medical devices. All will be engineered with agents.

We bootstrapped BoWatt to €500k+ ARR before raising our first round. BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors, including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.

You’ll join a small team of startup builders focused on speed, ownership, and execution. Over half the team are former founders, with backgrounds across DeepTech AI, gaming, and other startups. We’ve studied and worked at institutions and companies including Stanford, TUM, Google, EA, and YC-backed AI startups.

The role

You will define and implement our design system together with the product team and improve the overall UI/UX of our platform.

You will work closely with product to design beautiful user experiences for upcoming features.

You will build and ship features across our React / TypeScript / Tailwind frontend.

You will own your work, collaborate closely with the team (product, engineering and customer success) and continuously improve our app.

You

Are an engineer turned designer, or vice versa, or always have been the one on the team understanding the value of easy-to-use interfaces.

Have 3+ years of experience shipping frontend production code.

Have 3+ years of experience designing for the web.

Have a portfolio of projects that show your product sense and design taste.

May have some interest in upskilling into backend development.

Are based in Germany and have the right to work here.

What we offer

Competitive salary based on experience (€65,000 - €100,000)

Equity in the company (0.5 - 1%)

Fully remote, hybrid, or onsite? Up to you.

Top-tier hardware, as well as any other tools of your choice

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