Design Engineer

Idler; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free meals in office

Healthcare

401(k)

Relocation assistance

Meaningful equity

Job summary

Idler is seeking a Design Engineer to own the visual design and user experience for our customers and internal team. You’ll craft beautiful applications, pages, interactions, and marketing materials that are easy to view and use.

Our RL environments are complex artifacts that require clear interaction and communication. You’ll bring founder’s thinking, designer taste, and engineering precision to succeed in this hands-on, in-person role in San Francisco.

Qualifications

• Portfolio showcasing design work.
• Strong UI/UX design skills and aesthetic sensibility.
• Experience observing users and iterating to improve the product.

Responsibilities

• Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with RL environments.
• Build templates for marketing materials that are beautiful and standards-compliant.
• Instrument and visualize the environment tracking system across iterations.

Skills

Strong portfolio

User testing and iteration

2+ years product experience

Tools

React

Typescript

Node.js

Postgres

Redis

Vercel

Cursor/Claude Code/Codex

Tinker

Modal

AWS

Daytona

GRPO

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.

After raising a $9m seed round led by Paradigm, we spent the last year developing coding evals for top coding models you know and love. At the same time, we've expanded into other domains besides coding: RSI & Auto-Research, Law, Enterprise Business, Cybersecurity, and others. Now, we are facing more lab demand for our data than we can serve, and are rapidly scaling the team to grow the business.

Our approach to creating training data scales using technology, and all of our data products are built on a unified self-reinforcing platform that learns through experience.

You would be joining a close-knit team that has reached product market fit, and your work would directly help to multiply our revenue.

You can see some of our work here: https://idler.ai/collections

About the role

As a Design Engineer at idler, you'll own the visual design and user experience for our customers and internal team. You'll be tasked with producing beautiful applications, pages, interactions, and marketing materials 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




• An excellent portfolio showcasing 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/Claude Code/Codex, Tinker, Modal, AWS, Daytona, GRPO

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.