Founding Design Engineer
Core
Lead the 0→1 design and engineering effort to build financial infrastructure products for industrial sectors like machine shops, farms, and factories.
Role type
Founding Design Engineer (0-1 product builder) (via careerplan.io/jobs/3752e6b6-79a8-4bd0-b4fc-6942bfb578f8-founding-design-engineer-at-substrate)
Builds
0→1 product experiences and interfaces
Domain
Fintech / Industrial Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
UI/UX design, full-stack engineering, product copywriting, prototyping, Figma, LLMs
Preferred skills
History of design and art styles, growth.design knowledge, engineering philosophy alignment
Technologies
Figma, Lovable
Responsibilities
Own the full arc from customer pain to shipped product, design and build interfaces on top of legacy systems, write growth-optimized copy, spin up high-fidelity mockups and prototypes, help build product culture