Senior Design Engineer: Frontend, 3D UI & AI Tools

aion; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Flexible work options

Wellness benefits

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Aion is hiring a design engineer to build, ship, and own delightful interfaces. You will craft production UI in React and TypeScript, create tools that speed up the team, and push the boundaries of motion and 3D graphics to elevate the user experience.

Join a fast-growing AI platform, ship across devices, and own components from prototype to production while maintaining performance, accessibility, and robustness in a dynamic startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping production front ends with live projects.
• Expert level React and TypeScript with well-structured component APIs.
• High-frequency motion values and direct DOM updates for responsive UI.
• CSS techniques including advanced layout, animation, and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Take ideas from a blank file to production and own shipping.
• Build production UI in React and TypeScript, from primitives to surfaces.
• Create design-system tooling, motion tuners, debug overlays and internal apps.
• Tune motion and gestures to feel physical with momentum and weight.
• Build 3D, shader and generative work to elevate the user experience.
• Review every build on real devices and keep apps fast, accessible and robust.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Production front ends

Motion/animation

CSS in depth

Accessibility

Performance

OpenGL/Shader intuition

Tools

Three.js

React Three Fiber

WebGL

WebGPU

GLSL

WGSL

Job description

Aion is hiring a design engineer to build, ship, and own delightful interfaces. You will craft production UI in React and TypeScript, create tools that speed up the team, and push the boundaries of motion and 3D graphics to elevate the user experience.

Join a fast-growing AI platform, ship across devices, and own components from prototype to production while maintaining performance, accessibility, and robustness in a dynamic startup environment.