Senior Design Engineer - AI Dev UX & Frontend

AssemblyAI, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AssemblyAI, Inc. in Chicago is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to own the craft and feel of the product experience end to end.

You will design and build the interfaces developers live in, from the Playground to the dashboard, and set the bar on how everything looks, moves, and feels. You will combine a strong design background with frontend engineering ability, and be deeply interested in exceptional product design for AI-native, developer-facing products.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of shipped product work demonstrating real design craft.
• Genuine UX and visual design ability from concept through high‑fidelity execution.
• Deep proficiency in Figma and design systems; comfortable maintaining shared component libraries.
• Solid frontend engineering skills, comfortable building production interfaces in modern React and TypeScript.
• Fluency with AI-assisted design and development and building AI-native interfaces.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity and owning outcomes end to end.

Responsibilities

• Own the visual and interaction design of core product surfaces and build them in production React and TypeScript.
• Set the bar for UX quality across the product, including interaction states, motion, and information hierarchy.
• Translate rough product ideas into polished, high‑fidelity experiences and prototype quickly to test direction.
• Shape and steward our design system and visual language to scale with the product.
• Partner directly with engineering and marketing on direction, not just execution.
• Use AI tooling to design and ship faster as a core part of the workflow.

Skills

UX design

Design portfolio

Interaction design

Visual design

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

React

TypeScript

Figma

AI tooling

Prototyping tools

Job description

AssemblyAI, Inc. in Chicago is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to own the craft and feel of the product experience end to end.

You will design and build the interfaces developers live in, from the Playground to the dashboard, and set the bar on how everything looks, moves, and feels. You will combine a strong design background with frontend engineering ability, and be deeply interested in exceptional product design for AI-native, developer-facing products.