Design Engineer

About the role

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.

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

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

Logistics

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

Taste

You know what good looks like.