Design Engineer

Browserbase; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity & salary

Medical, dental, vision

Optional 401(k)

Lunches and kitchen support

SF office in downtown

AI tool credits

Team off-sites

Job summary

Browserbase is hiring a Design Engineer to architect surfaces and interfaces that developers touch daily. This hands-on role blends creative design thinking with front-end engineering.

You will partner with engineering, product, and design to define how a developer platform should look and feel, shipping experiences across the dashboard and SDK.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience at a high-growth startup.
• Portfolio showing strong systems thinking and end-to-end ownership.
• Strong prototyping fluency across interaction, visual detail, and motion.
• A track record of building internal tooling or systems that elevated teams.
• Exceptional sense of visual craft with typography, hierarchy, and UI.
• Low-ego, high-ownership mindset with close collaboration with engineering.
• Enjoy collaborating with a small, ambitious team in a fast-paced environment.
• Willing to work 4 days a week in our San Francisco HQ (or relocate).

Responsibilities

• Design and ship product experiences across the platform with a small design-engineering team.
• Build with modern tools to create responsive, accessible interfaces.
• Bridge design and code by translating visuals into interactive prototypes in code.
• Elevate quality with craft and consistency across apps and components.
• Shape and maintain a scalable design system of components and patterns.
• Collaborate deeply with designers, engineers, growth, and product leads from concept to launch.

Skills

Product design

Systems thinking

Prototyping

Cross-functional collaboration

Typography/UI craft

Tools

Figma

React

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Job description

About Browserbase

Browserbase is the complete platform to build and deploy agents that browse and interact with the web like humans. We provide one API key for agents to search and fetch information, fill out forms, and replicate user actions. We run 35M+ sessions/month for 10,000+ customers including Ramp, Shopify, Lovable, Vercel, and Notion.

We're a Series B startup that's tripled our headcount in 2 years, and are continuing to grow, fast. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, CRV, and Notable Capital, our team is building on our CEO's founding vision to power the world's best AI tools and help everyone automate the web.

About the Role

We are excited to hire a Design Engineer to architect the surfaces and interfaces that our developers touch every day. This is a hands‑on, high-impact role that blends creative design thinking with front‑end engineering.

You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and our growing design team to define how a category-defining developer platform should look and feel.

What you’ll do

• Design and ship product experiences. Lead design across our platform product with two other design engineers

• Build with modern tools: Develop responsive, accessible, and interactive product experiences using React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS.

• Bridge design & code: Work in Figma and code to translate visual concepts into high-quality, interactive experiences and prototypes.

• Elevate quality: Raise the bar on craft and consistency, shipping visible, tasteful work that makes Browserbase feel top‑of‑class.

• Shape systems: Establish and maintain a reusable design system of components and patterns that scale with the team.

• Collaborate deeply: Partner with designers, engineers, growth, and product leads to own projects from concept to launch.

What makes us different

• Ship the best design work of your career. Craft is a first‑class priority. Work next to designers who obsess over the details, and ship work you're truly proud of.

• Design surfaces that millions of agents hit. From the dashboard to the SDK, your work is the front door for thousands of developers building agents.

• Small enough that you matter. We are an early‑stage team of ~60 people where your work has a direct and immediate impact on our product.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product design experience at a high‑growth startup.

• A portfolio demonstrating strong systems thinking and end‑to‑end ownership, from IA to visual detail.

• Strong prototyping fluency across interaction, visual detail, and motion.

• A track record of building internal tooling or systems that leveled up the teams around you.

• Exceptional sense of visual craft with deep attention to typography, hierarchy, and UI.

• Low‑ego, high‑ownership mindset with a track record of shipping in tight collaboration with engineering.

• You enjoy collaborating with a small, ambitious team in a fast‑paced environment.

• You're excited to work 4 days a week in our San Francisco HQ (or open to relocating).

Bonus Points

• Experience designing for developer tools, infrastructure products, or technical platforms.

• Front‑end fluency with React, Next.js, or Tailwind to prototype directly in code.

• Founder or early‑stage operator experience.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary + meaningful early‑stage equity

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents

• Optional 401(k)

• Daily catered lunches with a fully‑stocked kitchen

• Beautiful office in downtown San Francisco

• Unlimited credits for Cursor, Claude, or any AI tool you want

• Regular team off‑sites and company events