Design Engineer

Idlexperts; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary + meaningful equity

Free meals in office

Healthcare, 401(k), 15 days of PTO per

Relocation assistance

Small, ambitious team

Job summary

idler is seeking a Design Engineer in San Francisco to own the user experience for customers and internal teams. You will build robust, performant apps for RL environments that are easy to interact with and communicate clearly.

The role requires a track record of designing and shipping full-stack products, a portfolio, user-focused iteration, and fluency with React, Typescript, and Node.js. The position is in-person with relocation support, competitive salary, equity, and benefits.

Qualifications

• Designed and implemented a successful, full-stack product.
• Portfolio showing your design work.
• Watched users interact with your software and iterated until they loved it.
• Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js).

Responsibilities

• Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with our RL environments that serves frontier labs and our internal team
• Build a standard library and templates for our marketing materials that are beautiful and compliant with design best practices
• Instrument and visualize our environment tracking system across hundreds of discrete steps and iterations per artifact

Skills

React

Typescript

Node.js

UI/UX design

Product experience

Portfolio

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Vercel

Cursor

Job description

About idler

idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world’s leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.

We closed on a multimillion-dollar contract with a top lab and raised a $9m seed round led by Paradigm. We are now facing more lab demand for our data than we can currently serve.

Teaching AI superhuman capabilities is a responsibility we take very seriously. Our training data comes from work that is rigorous, ethically produced, and grounded in real expertise.

About the role

As a Design Engineer at idler, you’ll own the user experience for our customers and internal team. You’ll be tasked with producing robust, performant applications that are a delight to view and use. Our RL environments are novel, complex artifacts that need to be easy to interact with and communicated well. You’ll need a founder’s high-level thinking, a designer’s taste, and an engineer’s precision to succeed.

Examples of what you’ll do

• Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with our RL environments that serves frontier labs and our internal team

• Build a standard library and templates for our marketing materials that are beautiful and compliant with design best practices

• Instrument and visualize our environment tracking system across hundreds of discrete steps and iterations per artifact

What we’re looking for

• Designed and implemented of a successful, full-stack product

• A portfolio showing your design work

• Watched users interact with your software and quickly iterated until they loved it

• Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js)

• 2+ years of product experience

Tech stack

Typescript, React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor

Details

• In-person in San Francisco

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• Free meals in office

• Healthcare, 401(k), 15 days of PTO per year

• Relocation assistance

• Small, ambitious team

This is an in-person role in San Francisco. We’re a tight-knit founding team and we play to win. Join us if you like to win too.