AI-Native Product UI Engineer (UI-Focused) KL/JB

RUNJIAN (M) SDN. BHD.; Kuala Lumpur; Presencial; MYR 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

RUNJIAN (M) SDN. BHD. is seeking an AI-Native Product UI Engineer to craft clear, localized English UI for Malaysian users. You will translate requirements into flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity screens, collaborating with product and architecture leads.

This is a design-led role focused on AI prototyping and frontend drafts using tools like Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude. Final production work is done with engineers.

Formación

• 5+ years of hands-on UI/product design experience for software products, preferably B2B SaaS or data-heavy apps.
• Strong Figma skills, including component libraries, auto layout, variants, prototyping, handoff specs, and design system maintenance.
• A strong portfolio showing visual design, interaction logic, IA, and simplifying complex workflows.
• Good understanding of frontend basics such as HTML, CSS, responsive layout, and design-to-development handoff.
• Practical use of AI tools for UI exploration, prototyping, UX writing, or frontend draft generation.
• Excellent English communication and UI writing for Malaysian/ASEAN users.
• Ability to work in a startup-like environment, iterate quickly, balance speed and quality.
• User-centered mindset and sensitivity to local culture.

Responsabilidades

• Translate product requirements into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and interactive prototypes.
• Localize mature product interfaces for Malaysian and ASEAN English-speaking users, adjusting IA and terminology.
• Use AI prototyping tools to generate interface options and frontend drafts for quick validation.
• Build and maintain reusable UI patterns, including typography, spacing, colors, forms, dashboards, and AI chat interfaces.
• Design clear B2B enterprise interfaces for dashboards, admin views, and data-heavy pages.
• Create concise English UI copy, prompts, and onboarding instructions.
• Collaborate with engineers to provide design specs and ensure accurate handoff.
• Support user validation through interviews, usability reviews, and pilot feedback.
• Develop AI tooling workflows and guardrails to maintain design quality.

Conocimientos

UI/UX design

Figma & components

Portfolio

Frontend basics

AI prototyping tools

English writing

Startup mindset

User research

Herramientas

Figma Make

v0

Lovable

Bolt.new

Replit

Cursor

ChatGPT

Claude

Descripción del empleo

The ASEAN AI Innovation Centre is the overseas R&D hub of our AI Business Group, responsible for localizing mature AI products from China and building new AI products for Malaysia and broader ASEAN markets.

We are looking for an AI-Native Product UI Engineer with a UI-first mindset. Your primary responsibility is to make AI products clear, usable, localized, and visually coherent for English-speaking Malaysian users. You will work closely with the AI-Native Product Manager and the Senior Software Engineer (Architecture Track) to turn product requirements into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, design systems, and AI-generated interactive prototypes.

This is a design-led role, not a traditional full production frontend engineering role. We do not expect you to be both a senior UI designer and a senior frontend engineer. You should, however, be comfortable using AI prototyping and code-generation tools such as Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude to create clickable prototypes, interface variations, and frontend drafts that help the team validate ideas quickly. Final production implementation will be reviewed and completed with engineers and architecture leadership.

As a founding design owner, you will shape local product interface standards for ASEAN clients in energy and education: English UI copy, layout density, navigation patterns, responsive behavior, accessibility, and reusable component libraries. This is an individual-contributor role: you do the design work yourself — research, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and prototypes — rather than managing other designers.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Product UI & Interaction Design: Translate PRDs, customer workflows, and product ideas into user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, clickable prototypes, and interaction specifications.
• Localization of Mature Products: Redesign China-origin product interfaces for Malaysian and ASEAN English-speaking users. Adjust information architecture, page density, navigation, terminology, microcopy, and cultural expectations rather than simply translating text.
• AI-Native Prototyping: Use AI tools such as Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, and Claude to rapidly generate interface options, clickable prototypes, UI copy alternatives, and frontend draft screens for fast validation.
• Design System & UI Standards: Build and maintain reusable UI patterns, including typography, spacing, colors, forms, tables, dashboards, AI chat interfaces, loading states, empty states, error states, and permission states.
• B2B Product Experience: Design clear enterprise interfaces for AI products in energy and education, including dashboards, workflow tools, admin views, data-heavy pages, and human-in-the-loop AI interaction patterns.
• English UX Writing & Microcopy: Create concise and natural English UI text, including button labels, field names, prompts, help text, warnings, errors, onboarding instructions, and AI response guidance.
• Frontend Collaboration & Handoff: Prepare clear design specs, component requirements, interaction states, and responsive behavior guidelines for engineers. Review implementation quality to ensure the final product matches the intended user experience.
• User Validation & Iteration: Support the Product Manager in customer interviews, usability reviews, demo feedback sessions, and pilot iteration. Update UI based on local customer insights and real product usage.
• AI Tooling Practices: Develop prompt templates, UI generation workflows, and design-to-code guardrails so the team can use AI tools consistently without losing design quality.
• Accessibility & Responsiveness: Ensure readability, responsive layout, appropriate contrast, keyboard and state design, and practical accessibility considerations for enterprise users.

WHAT YOU MUST BRING

• 5+ years of hands-on UI/product design experience for software products, preferably B2B SaaS, enterprise dashboards, AI products, or data‑heavy applications.
• Strong Figma skills, including component libraries, auto layout, variants, prototyping, handoff specs, and design system maintenance.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating visual design quality, interaction logic, information architecture, and the ability to simplify complex workflows.
• Good understanding of frontend basics such as HTML, CSS, responsive layout, component-based UI, and design-to-development handoff. You do not need to be a production frontend engineer.
• Practical use of AI tools for UI exploration, prototyping, UX writing, or frontend draft generation, such as Figma Make, v0, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude, or similar tools.
• Strong English communication and UI writing ability; able to make interface text concise, professional, and user‑friendly for Malaysian and ASEAN users.
• Ability to work in an ambiguous, startup-like environment, iterate quickly, and balance speed with design quality.
• User‑centered mindset and sensitivity to local culture, business etiquette, and English‑language product experience in Malaysia and Southeast Asia.

WHAT YOU CAN LEARN HERE

• AI‑native design workflows where product specs, UI prototypes, and AI‑assisted frontend drafts form a tight feedback loop.
• How LLMs, RAG, and AI agent workflows affect interface design, trust, explainability, confidence indicators, and human‑in‑the‑loop controls.
• Design‑to‑code workflows with AI tools, including prompt patterns, design system integration, prototype validation, and engineering review gates.
• Multi‑market localization strategies for Southeast Asia, especially adapting China‑origin products to ASEAN users.
• Domain knowledge in AI+Energy and AI+Education products.
• Responsible AI UX, privacy‑aware design, and ASEAN regulatory context such as Malaysia PDPA.

LANGUAGE

Proficiency in English is essential. Proficiency in Chinese (Mandarin) is strongly preferred. Malay is a plus for on‑site work and local coordination.

WHY JOIN US

• Founding design owner opportunity: shape the user experience, design system, and localization standards of a brand‑new AI R&D centre from the ground up.
• Build real AI products for energy and education across Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
• Work in an AI‑first team where PM specs, UI prototypes, and engineering implementation are tightly connected.
• High‑impact role: your UI decisions will directly affect whether mature China products can be successfully adopted by local users.
• 3‑year strategic incubation: no short‑term revenue pressure. Focus on building the right products, product language, and design culture.

TEAM CONTEXT

You will form the product‑experience pillar alongside the AI‑Native Product Manager and the Senior Software Engineer (Architecture Track). In Year 1, the Centre will be a compact team of 5‑15 people, scaling to 25‑30 by Year 2.

Your day‑to‑day collaborators will include:

• AI‑Native Product Manager: Align on user needs, workflows, PRDs, localisation priorities, customer feedback, and product acceptance criteria.
• Senior Software Engineer / Architecture Track: Align on technical feasibility, design‑to‑code boundaries, reusable component standards, and review gates for AI‑generated frontend drafts.
• Engineers and AI coding agents: Provide design context, component specs, and prototype drafts while ensuring final product UI remains consistent, understandable, and usable.
• AI Solution Delivery Engineer: Receive usability observations and localisation feedback from real customer environments, and validate that localised UI works for actual users during POCs and pilots.

You will help bridge China's mature product logic with Malaysia's local user experience. Your success is not measured by how much production code you write, but by how quickly and clearly the team can turn product ideas into interfaces that users understand, trust, and want to use.