Deeporigin

Deeporigin

Staff Frontend Engineer (Design Systems & UX)

South San Francisco, California, United States · Staff+

No sponsorshipDetected 5 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactHTMLCSSCode ReviewRESTData VisualizationSketchGraphic DesignDesign SystemsAccessibilityTest AutomationResearchLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Role Description This is a Staff-level frontend engineering role for someone with strong product and UX judgment.
  • You'll architect and ship the front-end systems behind an operating system for science, while helping define whether the product is actually good to use, not just functional.
  • We want an engineer who can look at a complex scientific workflow, identify what is unclear or inefficient, propose a better direction, and ship high-quality product UI in close collaboration with the team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead component architecture, the design system, and shared front-end infrastructure in React and TypeScript.
  • Drive decisions on state management, rendering strategy, performance budgets, and the patterns that keep the platform coherent, and write the RFCs and reviews that get the rest of the team on the same page.
  • Prototype and build production UI for complex scientific workflows: work on multi-step pipelines, parameterized simulations, molecular viewers, results dashboards, and other data-heavy research workflows.
  • Improve screens that were never fully designed, flows that were stitched together over time, and inconsistencies that accumulated as the product evolved.
  • Help the whole team build better judgment so quality does not depend on one person being in every conversation.
  • Use strong judgment on layout, hierarchy, motion, and interaction design.
  • When the path is clear, move quickly; when tradeoffs are meaningful, frame the options and drive alignment with Product, Engineering, Science, and leadership.
  • You pull context, identify the missing decisions, propose a path forward, and create momentum.
  • You optimize for impact, not for being right.

Requirements

  • Comfort with ambiguity.

Nice to have

  • Experience with scientific or biotech software.
  • Background in or exposure to computational chemistry, biology, or physics, scientific research workflows, or drug discovery.
  • Familiarity with 3D rendering or molecular visualization libraries (e.g., Mol*, NGL, 3Dmol.js) or WebGL.
  • We're not looking for someone to make marketing assets.
  • You write and ship the code.
  • This is hands-on IC work.
  • state management, responsive and cross-browser work, testing, performance profiling, and clean version control habits.
  • Comfort with data visualization past the standard chart library, where the visualization is the interface.

Company info

  • Set performance expectations, chase down bottlenecks, improve accessibility, and pay down UI and technical debt as part of normal product development.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Location, Work Authorization & Benefits This role requires working onsite in San Francisco at least 3 days per week
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