Product Design Engineer - Audio

Stability AI; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stability AI is seeking a Design Engineer focused on Audio to bridge design and code, partnering with our Audio team to prototype, build, and polish experiences across the product suite. You’ll take ideas from sketches to shipped interactions, balancing aesthetics with engineering practicality.

You’ll excel at front-end engineering and craft, shipping polished tools and contributing to design systems that scale across desktop, web, plugins, and mobile.

Qualifications

• Strong front-end engineering skills: React, TypeScript, Next.js, CSS, animations.
• Equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor.
• Shipped polished products; know what it takes to go from 90% to 100%.
• Move fast—prototype ideas in hours, not days.
• Think in systems, not just one-off screens.
• Excited about AI and shaping the future of creative tools.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality UI components and interactions for audio products.
• Rapidly prototype new concepts to test ideas before committing to full builds.
• Own the UI quality across the audio product suite with pixel-perfect execution.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and audio research to define scope.
• Build design systems and component libraries for desktop, web, plugin, and mobile.

Skills

Front-end engineering

UI design

Prototype testing

Pixel-perfect

System thinking

AI enthusiasm

Design collaboration

Tools

React

TypeScript

Next.js

CSS

Animations

Job description

Stability AI is the enterprise-ready partner for teams and creators, delivering professional-grade generative AI products and solutions across audio, image, video, and 3D.

In August 2022, we released Stable Diffusion and sparked the generative AI revolution. Since then, Stable Diffusion models have been downloaded over 350 million times, becoming the technical backbone for an entire ecosystem of creators.

We’ve always built for creatives first. Now that’s expanded beyond the models themselves into products and solutions designed around how creative people actually work across music, gaming, entertainment, and marketing. Our artist-centric approach is why Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP, and others have chosen us as their strategic partner.

Stability AI is recognized among Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators and TIME’s Most Influential Companies, with Stable Audio on TIME’s Best Inventions list. We are led by CEO Prem Akkaraju, Executive Chairman Sean Parker, and board members James Cameron, Dana Settle, and Thomas Laffont. Our work is backed by world-class investors including Coatue, Eric Schmidt, Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Prem Akkaraju, Sean Parker, Sound Ventures, and more.

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Product Design Engineer - Audio

Stability AI is a community- and mission-driven, open artificial intelligence company that cares deeply about real-world implications and applications. Our most considerable advances grow from our diversity in working across multiple teams and disciplines. We are unafraid to go against established norms and explore creativity. We are motivated to generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into tangible solutions. Our vibrant communities consist of experts, leaders, and partners across the globe who are developing cutting-edge open AI models for Image, Audio, Video, and 3D.

About the role

We’re looking for a Design Engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You’ll work closely with our Audio team to prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make our audio product suite feel effortless, taking ideas from initial sketches to shipped interactions. This role is perfect for someone who thinks like a designer and can build like an engineer.

Responsibilities

• Build production-quality UI components and interactions that delight musicians and producers
• Rapidly prototype new concepts to test ideas before committing to a full build
• Own the quality of UI across our suite of audio products — pixel-perfect execution and interactions that feel great in an artist’shands
• Work with product, engineering, and audio research to figure out what’s possible and shape where the product goes
• Build design systems and component libraries that help the whole team ship faster across desktop, web, plugin, and mobile

Qualifications

• You’re equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor
• You have strong front-end engineering skills: React, TypeScript, Next.js, CSS, animations
• You have a sharp eye for detail and care deeply about craft
• You’ve shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%
• You move fast — prototyping ideas in hours, not days
• You think in systems, not one-off screens
• You’re genuinely excited about AI and want to help define how the future of creative tools works

Nice to have

• Experience building creative tools, audio or music software, or other complex products
• A design background or formal design training
• Experience with plugins, native UI frameworks (SwiftUI, JUCE, Tauri), or shipping cross-platform apps
• Familiarity with DAWs, MIDI, Web Audio, or music production

Interview Process

As part of the interview process, you’ll be asked to present examples of your design work and participate in a design review. We’re interested in understanding your design thinking, decision-making process, and how you collaborate to solve complex product challenges.

Equal Employment Opportunity: We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.