Founding Design Engineer: AI-Driven UI & Web Systems

autumn; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Beautiful office in Williamsburg, NY

Lunch and fitness stipend

Top-tier health insurance

Job summary

Autumn is hiring a Design Engineer to join the founding team. You will shape the product UI, website, and reusable templates for hotels. This hands-on role requires crafting production-ready front-end code and strong visual craft.

You’ll work directly with founders, engineers, and hoteliers to simplify complex workflows and deliver delightful experiences. Four days in person in New York, with optional fifth day.

Qualifications

• Strong product design fundamentals including IA, interaction and visual design.
• Portfolio showing shipped product experiences and consumer-facing websites.
• Proven front-end engineering: production-grade HTML, CSS, React, and TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Own product experiences end to end from problem definition to ship.
• Turn complex hospitality workflows into intuitive interfaces for operators.
• Design AI-native experiences that delegate, review outputs, and recover when needed.
• Design and build Autumn’s website and reusable templates in production code.
• Create reusable hotel website templates and email templates for multiple properties.
• Develop and maintain design systems across product UI, websites, and email.

Skills

Information architecture

Interaction design

Visual design

Prototyping

Systems thinking

Design thinking

Product design

Tools

React

TypeScript

Next.js

Tailwind CSS

HTML

CSS

Job description

Autumn is hiring a Design Engineer to join the founding team. You will shape the product UI, website, and reusable templates for hotels. This hands-on role requires crafting production-ready front-end code and strong visual craft.

You’ll work directly with founders, engineers, and hoteliers to simplify complex workflows and deliver delightful experiences. Four days in person in New York, with optional fifth day.