Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Report directly with Dioptra’s founders as part of a small, highly focused product and engineering group
• Operate like a founder: high trust, high autonomy, high responsibility
• Own product experience end-to-end: customer understanding → wireframes → high-fidelity design → production-quality UI
• Join customer calls regularly to develop deep empathy for users and workflows
• Translate complex, messy problems into clear, intuitive interfaces
• Establish and evolve a design system and component library from scratch
• Prototype ideas quickly in code to test interactions, not just in Figma
• Sweat the details: loading states, edge cases, error handling, micro-interactions
• Drive fast iteration loops
• Partner directly with founders on product direction and prioritization
• Define the bar for design quality and user experience as the product scales

Qualifications

• You’re either a designer who codes at a high level, or an engineer with exceptional product taste
• You don’t wait for specs, you figure things out and iterate.
• Strong UI/UX skills: interaction design, information architecture, visual design, user empathy
• Solid frontend engineering skills (React + TypeScript or similar)
• Experience building or contributing to design systems / component libraries
• Comfortable working directly from ambiguous problem spaces
• Experience (or strong interest) in B2B / complex workflows / AI-native products
• Strong communication—especially explaining why something should work a certain way

Pay

Salary Range: Min $175,000 - Max $250,000 USD per year

We are considering Engineers at various levels based on experience, thus the broad base salary range. Pay offered will vary based on job-related factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities. In addition to the base salary, an annual bonus target and an equity component is included in the compensation package.