Founding Design Engineer
Role Overview
As a Founding Design Engineer, you will work directly with the CEO, CTO, and customers to build intuitive user interfaces for AI Agents, transforming complex industrial data into transparent, high-trust experiences. This senior-level role involves shipping production features end-to-end, with a focus on frontend development while handling backend tasks as needed. You will have a significant impact by empowering users to act confidently and speedily in manufacturing operations.
Perks & Benefits
This role requires onsite work in San Francisco with support for relocation and visas, though the company is remote-friendly. You'll join a small, talent-dense team backed by top investors and leaders from companies like Amazon and Stripe, offering opportunities for career growth in a high-impact environment. The culture values attention to detail, product sense, and direct customer collaboration, with perks typical of tech startups such as competitive benefits.
Full Job Description
DRYFT
Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations
We’re a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes. Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads.
We’re backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies.
Today, we’re already saving customers millions. But this is only the beginning. ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Dryft is powering the next.
THE ROLE
As Founding Design Engineer, you’ll work directly with our CEO, CTO, and customers to build magical user interfaces for our AI Agents. Your mission is to make the complex intuitive, transforming dense industrial data and decision logic into transparent, high-trust experiences that empower users to act with confidence and speed.
YOU
Are an engineer turned designer, or vice versa, or always have been the one on the team understanding the value of easy-to-use interfaces.
Shipped production features end-to-end. While stronger in FE, you can handle BE too.
Have a strong product sense and enjoy working directly with customers
You obsess over design, pay attention to details and are always the first to explore best-in-class products
Are ready to work onsite in SF (we support relocation & visa)
TECH STACK
FE (TypeScript): React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite
BE (Python): FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, PostgreSQL with pgvector, dagster
AI: Pydantic AI, Langfuse
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