HappyRobot
Founding Design Engineer
San Francisco · Mid
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About the role
- As a Design Engineer at HappyRobot, you will own the end-to-end design process for major product surfaces, working closely with PMs, engineers, AI researchers, and leadership.
- You'll take ideas from early concept to polished implementation-and because you have strong FE knowledge, you'll bridge the gap between design and engineering, ensuring your work ships with accuracy, quality, and care.
- This is a highly collaborative, high-impact role where you'll influence strategy, improve user experience, and build delightful interfaces used by teams worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design, turning complex workflows into simple, intuitive experiences.
- Create UX flows, wireframes, interaction specs, and high-quality UI.
- Conduct user research, synthesize insights, and validate solutions.
- Collaborate closely with FE engineers to ensure feasibility, scalability, and accessibility.
- Produce clean, modular design specs and prototype interactions using modern FE tools.
- Provide design QA and guidance during implementation.
- Partner with PMs to shape product strategy and scope.
- Advocate for user needs and apply design thinking to technical challenges.
- 3+ years experience in product design for SaaS or digital products.
Requirements
- Ability to prototype interactions using tools like Figma, Framer, or code.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML products or complex systems.
- Ability to write production-ready FE code (optional but highly valued).
- Experience in early-stage startups.
- Join a world-class team of engineers and builders.
- Backed by top investors including a16z, Y Combinator, Base10, Prysm Capital and Eurazeo.
- Have ownership and autonomy of projects and are encouraged to ship.
- Our Operating Principles
- Extreme Ownership
Compensation
- Competitive salary + equity in a high-growth startup.
Company info
- We are "majos" Be friendly & have fun with your coworkers.
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