Principal Product Designer - Agentic AI Platform

Shield AI; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 340,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a senior frontend designer to own the end-to-end UI for agentic AI products in the office of the CTO. You will ship production React/TypeScript interfaces and influence design across EdgeOS-based autonomy platforms, Pilot, Forge, Commander, and related tools.

You will work with senior engineers and researchers, conducting user research, prototyping, and delivering polished interfaces with strong interaction design.

Qualifications

• 12+ years designing and building production software interfaces.
• Expert-level React/TypeScript; you write production-quality front-end code, not just prototypes.
• Portfolio of shipped tools or applications demonstrating strong interaction design and visual craft.
• Hands-on experience designing LLM-powered experiences: streaming, progressive rendering, loading states, context and conversation management.
• Deep knowledge of client and UI state management, the DOM, browser APIs, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events.
• Experience running user research and usability testing, and acting on the results.
• Strong software hygiene: Git, code review, testing, CI/CD.
• Fluid intelligence to operate in ambiguity and drive technical effort.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the user experience for agentic AI products across the office of the CTO.
• Prototype in code and ship React/TypeScript implementations into production.
• Design core interaction patterns: streaming responses, provenance, multi-modal input, and human-in-the-loop surfaces.
• Create interfaces for foundation-model based autonomy architectures and tooling.
• Conduct user research with engineers, operators, and executives; translate findings into design decisions.
• Analyze competing products and synthesize findings for leadership.
• Establish reusable patterns and a component vocabulary for AI apps.
• Drive adoption by instrumenting usage and iterating daily.

Skills

React/TypeScript

End-to-end ownership

User research & usability testing

Git & CI/CD

Linux & Docker

Cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS)

Tools

Docker

Cloud platforms

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a senior frontend designer to own the end-to-end UI for agentic AI products in the office of the CTO. You will ship production React/TypeScript interfaces and influence design across EdgeOS-based autonomy platforms, Pilot, Forge, Commander, and related tools.

You will work with senior engineers and researchers, conducting user research, prototyping, and delivering polished interfaces with strong interaction design.