Design Engineer

idler; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Free meals in office

Healthcare

401(k)

15 days PTO per year

Relocation assistance

Job summary

idler is a frontier data research lab that builds evaluative environments for leading labs. As a Design Engineer, you will own the user experience for customers and internal teams, delivering robust, performant applications that are a delight to view and use.

You'll work on novel RL environments, designing a unified UI paradigm, building templates for marketing, and instrumenting analytics across many iterations. This is an in-person role in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of product experience.
• Portfolio showing your design work.
• Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js).
• In-person role in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Own the UX for RL environments and internal team.
• Build robust, performant applications with polished UI.
• Create a unified UI/UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with environments.

Skills

Full-stack design

User experience

Product design

React

Typescript

Node.js

User research

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Vercel

Cursor

Job description

About idleridler 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.