Design Engineer

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pace, an AI-assisted back-office platform for insurers, is hiring the first Design Engineer to blend design judgment with frontend coding. You will talk to users, prototype in code, ship UI fixes to production, and help build a shared design system.

A strong candidate has good taste, can explain choices, and works with React and TypeScript in a fast‑moving startup. You will shape interfaces where AI output and human review meet, improving trust and usability for insurers.

Qualifications

• Strong frontend design sensibility and taste.
• Ability to explain design choices clearly.
• Experience with React and TypeScript in production code.

Responsibilities

• Talk to users to understand needs and pain points.
• Prototype interfaces directly in code and iterate quickly.
• Ship UI fixes to production and monitor impact.
• Help build and maintain a shared design system.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Prototyping

Design systems

User research

Tools

Git

Figma

Job description

This is the first Design Engineer at a small insurance operations startup, so the job mixes design judgment with real frontend coding. The work covers talking to users, prototyping in code, shipping UI fixes straight to production, and building a shared design system. A strong candidate has good taste, can explain their choices, works in React and TypeScript, and is comfortable with little process.

How it fits the AI era

AI agents handle much of the routine insurance work here, with human experts reviewing it, so the interface has to make that handoff clear and trustworthy. Tools that speed up prototyping and coding let one person cover more ground, which suits a solo design engineer. Judgment about what users need, what feels right, and which patterns deserve to become system standards stays human.

How it builds AI experience

The role offers hands‑on practice designing screens where AI output and human review sit side by side in a real back‑office setting for insurers. Someone building toward this can create small projects that turn new model abilities into usable interfaces, such as a review queue for AI‑drafted documents. Working directly with customers and operations staff shows how people actually trust and correct AI results.

Worth showing

• React and TypeScript shipped work
• Code‑based interactive prototypes
• Design system building
• Clear reasoning behind design choices
• AI product projects built

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About Pace

Agentic AI back‑office operations platform for commercial insurance carriers and brokers, per company releases.