Zed
Designer
The Americas (North, Central, South)
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 277 days ago
RustGitAgentic AIDesign SystemsCollaboration
About the role
- Zed combines high-performance local editing, real-time collaboration, and AI agents that can work directly in the codebase.
- WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON The editor sits at the center of how developers read, understand, and evolve complex systems.
- Small interaction decisions can meaningfully shape that process.
Responsibilities
- Zed is building a new kind of programming environment.
- We're designing the environment where humans and AI build software together.
- Designers at Zed work closely with engineers, prototype ideas directly in the product, and often implement parts of the interface themselves.
- Zed's design system and interaction patterns
Requirements
- You enjoy operating on the bleeding edge, work well with ambiguity, and ship
- You are excited to learn some Rust and get your hands dirty creating interfaces in Zed's custom-built UI framework, GPUI https://www.gpui.rs/
Skills
- Developer tools or IDEs
- Code editors or programming environments
- Technical productivity software
- AI-assisted tools or developer platforms
- Complex productivity products
- The editor is written in Rust with GPU acceleration for every frame.
- Zed is multiplayer by default, allowing developers to work together in the same codebase in real time.
- Much of our work happens through pair programming, with engineers collaborating directly inside the editor.
- Join us in revolutionizing the development experience.
- Your expertise could drive Zed's next game-changing feature!
Company info
- We're looking for a Product Design Engineer to help shape how this environment works.
This listing is sourced directly from Zed's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.