Design Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a passionate Design Engineer to join Runway Labs — our research and exploration team pushing the frontier of AI video and General World Models. This is not a role focused on Runway core consumer products; instead, you’ll be embedded in a fast-moving lab environment where the work is exploratory, experimental, and technical.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and implement novel user experiences at the intersection of AI video, world models, and emerging generative media
• Design and build agentic tools and interfaces that allow researchers and creatives to interact with and direct AI systems in real time
• Explore new application areas for AI video and general world models — from simulation and interactive media to research tooling
• Create internal tools and frameworks used across design and engineering teams at Runway Labs
• Work alongside researchers, engineers, and product designers to shape how we think about the future of AI-driven creativity

Requirements

• Genuine curiosity about AI video, world models, agentic engineering and generative media and an intuition for how to design meaningful interactions with these systems
• Experience designing flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UIs for web and agentic products
• Experience building agentic tools or interfaces — i.e., systems where AI takes actions, reasons over state, or drives multi-step workflows
• Strong understanding of visual and interaction design, as well as usability testing
• Comfort working in ambiguous, research oriented environments where the problem space is still being defined

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of visual and interaction design, as well as usability testing

Skills

• Experience with front-end technologies such as React, Vue, or Angular
• Knowledge of machine learning and AI concepts
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, research-oriented environment

Benefits

Runway strives to recruit and retain exceptional talent from diverse backgrounds while ensuring pay equity for our team. Our salary ranges are based on competitive market rates for our size, stage and industry, and salary is just one part of the overall compensation package we provide.

Pay

The range shared below is a general expectation for the function as posted, but we are also open to considering candidates who may be more or less experienced than outlined in the job description. In this case, we will communicate any updates in the expected salary range. Lastly, the provided range is the expected salary for candidates in the U.S. Outside of those regions, there may be a change in the range, which again, will be communicated to candidates.

Schedule

We are committed to creating a space where our employees can bring their full selves to work and have equal opportunity to succeed. So regardless of race, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, origin, ability, age, veteran status, if joining this mission speaks to you, we encourage you to apply.

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