Design Engineer

About idler idler is a frontier data research lab. We build the evals and environments that the world's leading frontier labs use to measure and train their models. We closed on a multimillion-dollar contract with a top lab and raised a $9m seed round led by Paradigm. We are now facing more lab demand for our data than we can currently serve. Teaching AI superhuman capabilities is a responsibility we take very seriously. Our training data comes from work that is rigorous, ethically produced, and grounded in real expertise. About the role As a Design Engineer at idler, you'll own the user experience for our customers and internal team. You'll be tasked with producing robust, performant applications that are a delight to view and use. Our RL environments are novel, complex artifacts that need to be easy to interact with and communicated well. You'll need a founder’s high-level thinking, a designer's taste, and an engineer's precision to succeed. Examples of what you’ll do Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with our RL environments that serves frontier labs and our internal team Build a standard library and templates for our marketing materials that are beautiful and compliant with design best practices Instrument and visualize our environment tracking system across hundreds of discrete steps and iterations per artifact What we’re looking for Designed and implemented of a successful, full-stack product A portfolio showing your design work Watched users interact with your software and quickly iterated until they loved it Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js) 2+ years of product experience Tech stack Typescript, React, NodeJS, Postgres, Redis, Vercel, Cursor Details In-person in San Francisco Competitive salary + meaningful equity Free meals in office Healthcare, 401(k), 15 days of PTO per year Relocation assistance Small, ambitious team This is an in-person role in San Francisco. We're a tight-knit founding team and we play to win. Join us if you like to win too.