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title: "Design Engineer"
company: "Dedalus Labs"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/dedalus-labs"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/dedalus-labs-design-engineer-d2db7bf6-5a5f-4945-9a09-e03087e28898"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dedalus-labs/1c811e4c-7798-4eb5-9169-60c6ad1fdb42"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["nextjs", "react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-06-15T11:42:00.723Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-27T09:27:17.718Z
---

# Design Engineer

**Dedalus Labs** — San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dedalus-labs/1c811e4c-7798-4eb5-9169-60c6ad1fdb42

## About Dedalus Labs

The fastest persistent computer for agents. Host long-running, stateful agents that never sleep in <50ms.

## About the role

### Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs

#### Mission

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.

#### 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.

#### 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.

#### Taste

You know what good looks like.

#### Logistics

- In person in San Francisco.

- Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.

- We sponsor visas.

#### Tips

The first thing we look at is your GitHub and your personal website. Show us the best version of yourself!

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