Design Engineer

Dedalus Labs is building the MCP gateway for the next generation of AI applications by unifying the fragmented AI agents ecosystem with a single drop-in API endpoint. We host and manage your MCP servers, allowing users…

Location: San Francisco, CA
Company size: 2–10
Posted: Yesterday
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Design Engineer · Dedalus Labs

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Job title: Design Engineer
Job location: San Francisco
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dedalus-labs/jobs/zeuKtG0-design-engineer
Job description: # 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!

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