Design Engineer

About idler

idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models.

We closed on a multimillion-dollar contract with a top lab and raised a $9m seed round led by Paradigm. We are now facing more lab demand for our data than we can currently serve.

Teaching AI superhuman capabilities is a responsibility we take very seriously. Our training data comes from work that is rigorous, ethically produced, and grounded in real expertise.

About the role

As a Design Engineer at idler, you'll own the user experience for our customers and internal team. You'll be tasked with producing robust, performant applications that are a delight to view and use. Our RL environments are novel, complex artifacts that need to be easy to interact with and communicated well. You'll need a founder’s high-level thinking, a designer's taste, and an engineer's precision to succeed.

Examples of what you’ll do

• Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with our RL environments that serves frontier labs and our internal team

• Build a standard library and templates for our marketing materials that are beautiful and compliant with design best practices

• Instrument and visualize our environment tracking system across hundreds of discrete steps and iterations per artifact

What we’re looking for

• Designed and implemented of a successful, full-stack product

• A portfolio showing your design work

• Watched users interact with your software and quickly iterated until they loved it

• Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js)

• 2+ years of product experience

Tech stack

Typescript, React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor

Details

• In-person in San Francisco

• Competitive salary + meaningful equity

• Free meals in office

• Healthcare, 401(k), 15 days of PTO per year

• Relocation assistance

• Small, ambitious team

This is an in-person role in San Francisco. We're a tight-knit founding team and we play to win. Join us if you like to win too.