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Design Engineer (Front End & Experiential Web)

DRH Search
Full-time
On-site
San Francisco, California, United States
We're assisting a well-established startup with their search for a design engineer. Their products are AI creative tools that shorten the distance between concepts and creation.  The role will work in the SF office 4 days a week and 1 day remotely.
 
What you'll do:

  • 40% Prototype the unheard-of: Turn Figma frames, motion studies, or half‑sketched ideas into live demos within hours. Throw them away, refine, or harden whatever best answers the design question.

  • 40% Build & ship user-facing features: Craft high‑performance TypeScript/React views and canvases. Polish micro‑interactions, motion, and accessibility until they “disappear” into the experience.

  • 15% Evolve the design system: Extend the component library, tokens, and animation primitives so the whole team moves fast and coherently.

  • 5% Design partnership: Sit in crits, run designer play‑tests, and surface interaction insights that reshape the roadmap.

What you'll bring:

  • 2+ years of experience in design engineering

  • Write TypeScript like a first language and have shipped complex SPAs (React,​ Solid,​ or similar) to production without losing pixel fidelity

  • Startup experience

 
Nice to haves:​
  • Knowledge of CNC / CAD / CAM pipelines or an industrial-​design background

  • Familiarity with Three.​js,​ React‑Three‑Fiber,​ or Babylon.​js.

  • Experience bridging ML outputs into interactive UIs

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