Design Engineer

Dedalus Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents. We are seeking a Design Engineer to build the UI for the platform that powers our AI agents.

You will obsess over user experience, craft fast, accessible interfaces, and shape the web front-end that enables rapid iteration on cutting-edge AI tooling. In-person work in San Francisco is expected, with visa sponsorship for exceptional applicants.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in React and TypeScript for production UI work.
• Experience with Next.js, Vite, or Remix web frameworks.
• Strong styling with Tailwind CSS and modern CSS techniques.
• Excellent responsive design and motion patterns.
• Focus on performance and core web vitals.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

Responsive design

Web performance

RSC and streaming

Motion design

Web accessibility

High-agency teamwork

Tools

GSAP

Three.js / React Three Fiber

Vite

WebGL

Job description

Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs

Mission

Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.

We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.

You might be a fit if you

• Are obsessive about user experience.


• Measure thrice, cut once.


• Sweat the small details.


• Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.


• Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.


• Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.


• Think the internet should be faster.


• Have shipped amazing work.


• Understand why a spring beats a tween.


• Care about optimal bundling strategies.


• View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.


• Believe actions speak louder than words.


• Are high agency and fiercely independent.


• Say how things ought to be built, then build them.


• Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.


• Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.


• Go above and beyond in everything you do.

What we look for

• Fluency with AI coding tools.


• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.


• Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.


• Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.


• Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.


• Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.


• Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.


• Responsive, accessible work.


• Modern CSS you are a little smug about.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.


• High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the oxc stack, etc.


• Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.


• Open-source contributions we can look at.


• Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.


• Experience writing APIs.


• Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.


• Strong knowledge of types.


• Interest in category theory.

Taste

You know what good looks like.

Logistics

• In person in San Francisco.


• Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.


• We sponsor visas.