Senior Design Engineer
AssemblyAISpeech Recognition company
Chicago, United States$180,000 - $240,000Senior
Accel
Insight Partners
Y Combinator
Daniel Gross
Nat Friedman
John Collison
Design
About the role
TL;DR
Owns product experience design and development for AI-native, developer-facing products.
- •AssemblyAI is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to own the end-to-end product experience, designing and building interfaces for developers.
- •This role requires a strong design background combined with frontend engineering skills, focusing on exceptional product design for an AI-native, developer-facing product.
- •Key Responsibilities Own visual and interaction design of core product surfaces and build them in React and TypeScript.
- •Set UX quality standards for interaction states, motion, and hierarchy.
- •Transform product ideas into polished, high-fidelity experiences.
- •Shape and steward the design system and visual language.
- •Partner with engineering and marketing on direction and execution.
- •Requirements Strong portfolio of shipped product work demonstrating design taste and craft.
- •Genuine UX and visual design ability from concept to execution.
- •Deep proficiency in Figma, including managing component libraries.
- •Solid frontend engineering skills in modern React and TypeScript.
- •Fluency with AI-assisted design and development, and instinct for AI-native interfaces.
Required skills
FigmaReactTypeScriptUX Design
Nice-to-have skills
Motion Design
Domain expertise
developer-toolsai
Tech stack
FigmaReactTypeScript
