Carnot AI

Carnot AI

Founding Design Engineer

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 220 days ago
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About the role

  • This is a founding design role for someone who wants to shape how enterprise users interact with AI-native software.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build Jinba's design system: components, tokens, patterns, and documentation
  • Own UI/UX for core product surfaces, from concept through implementation
  • Create motion design that guides users through workflow creation and execution
  • Collaborate directly with engineering to ship features, not just hand off specs
  • Establish design processes and standards as the first dedicated design hire
  • Strong product design sense with portfolio showing end-to-end ownership
  • Experience building or significantly contributing to a design system
  • Motion design ability: you understand timing, easing, and how animation communicates state
  • you ship your own designs
  • you'd rather own the whole surface than perfect one component forever

Requirements

  • Experience with developer tools, no-code platforms, or workflow/automation products
  • Comfort designing complex interfaces: canvas editors, drag-and-drop builders, multi-step flows
  • Ability to simplify dense functionality without dumbing it down
  • Experience at companies like Figma, Linear, Notion, Retool, Vercel, or similar dev/productivity tools
  • Opinionated but collaborative: you have strong taste and can articulate why
  • you have strong taste and can articulate why

Skills

  • Growing fast with major enterprise contracts.

This listing is sourced directly from Carnot AI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.