AI Design Enginner

## About the role We're hiring a Design Engineer to own the surface that decides whether people screenshot our product or close the tab. You sketch in code. You hold the whole interaction in your head — idle, hover, focus, active, loading, empty, error, and the keyboard shortcut nobody asked for that everyone uses once they find it. Not a frontend engineer with a Dribbble account. Not a product designer who picked up React. The role Linear, Vercel wrote the playbook for. We ship fast. We want to ship beautiful. That's the gap you close. ## What you'll work on - The Blu chat widget — the most-seen surface in our product, present on every page. Make collapsed → expanded feel physical, not animated. - Marketing site relaunch — 15 product pages, manifesto pages, full creative latitude on intempt.com. - Notetaker across three window states. It should feel like Apple shipped it. - The shared design system across five surfaces — web, desktop, mobile, iOS SDK, Android SDK. One token change propagates correctly or you fix it until it does. - Image Studio canvas — drag, snap, align, undo/redo, conditional rule builder. Best-in-class fidelity in a browser. ## You're probably this person if - You've shipped side projects other people bookmark - You have correct opinions on easing curves, type scales, focus rings, and z-index strategy - You've pushed Framer Motion past its limits - You can ship a marketing page top-to-bottom — copy, layout, components, animation, performance, SEO — without asking who owns what - You read the Vercel and Linear posts on design engineering and quietly thought "yeah, that's me" - You write CSS like prose ## Stack React, Next.js, shadcn, Tailwind, Radix on web. Bun and Tauri on desktop. Expo with NativeWind and react-native-reusables on mobile. Ink for terminal. Claude powering Blu. ## Compensation/logistics Remote. Heavy overlap with GMT+2 required. Competitive salaries and real ownership of the surface you ship. No take-home tests — send links to your work.