Design Engineer

Role Summary

DESIGN ENGINEER @ DEDALUS LABS

MISSION

Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.

We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU

• Are obsessive about user experience.
• Measure thrice, cut once.
• Sweat the small details.
• Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.
• Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.
• Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.
• Think the internet should be faster.
• Have shipped amazing work.
• Understand why a spring beats a tween.
• Care about optimal bundling strategies.
• View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.
• Believe actions speak louder than words.
• Are high agency and fiercely independent.
• Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
• Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
• Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
• Go above and beyond in everything you do.

Requirements

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

• Fluency with AI coding tools.
• Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
• Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.
• Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.
• Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.
• Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.
• Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.
• Responsive, accessible work.
• Modern CSS you are a little smug about.

NICE-TO-HAVE

• Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.
• High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the oxc stack, etc.
• Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.
• Open-source contributions we can look at.
• Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.
• Experience writing APIs.
• Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.
• Strong knowledge of types.
• Interest in category theory.

TASTE

You know what good looks like.

LOGISTICS

• In person in San Francisco.
• Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.
• We sponsor visas.

TIPS

The first thing we look at is your GitHub and your personal website. Show us the best version of yourself!