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title: "Design Engineer"
company: "idler"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/idler"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/idler-design-engineer-9b1ea025-d072-4a97-9f66-5c146fafb394"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/idler/199e6e98-c12f-494f-8cd1-eba950d45860"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["nodejs", "postgres", "react", "redis", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-08-26T22:14:05.947Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-08-27T09:27:56.322Z
---

# Design Engineer

**idler** — San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/idler/199e6e98-c12f-494f-8cd1-eba950d45860

## 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.

## About the role

**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 teamThis 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.

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