Design Engineer

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.

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!