# Design Engineer - Company: [Appliedlabs]() - Location: New York - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $150K – $250K - Posted: February 17, 2026 ## Job description ### About us At Applied Labs, we’re building the platform for reliable AI agents that automate complex work. We are primarily an in-person company based in New York City. ### Why this could be a fit * Trajectory: 10x growth in 4 months; strong momentum * Ownership: High autonomy; own outcomes end to end * Challenging problems: Build high-craft experiences that explain complex AI simply * Team quality: Early team from Harvard, MIT, Gemini, Meta * Speed and taste: Move fast without lowering the bar ### What you’ll do * Own the Applied Labs web and brand surfaces from concept to production, including marketing site, landing pages, launch pages, and lightweight interactive storytelling * Design and build directly in code, translating high-fidelity design into production-quality UI with excellent typography, layout, motion, accessibility, and performance * Create reusable components and templates that raise consistency and speed across the website and brand experiences * Build and maintain a high-quality pipeline for on-brand design assets, including images, short-form video, motion graphics, and illustrations * Use modern AI tools to accelerate output and iteration, including coding agents and generative image and video models, while maintaining a strong human taste and QA bar * Partner closely with founders in NYC to set the quality bar for how Applied Labs looks, feels, and communicates, and to execute quickly on new narratives, experiments, and launches * Establish the standard for future hires through your documentation, component patterns, asset specs, and creative workflow ### You might thrive in this role if you * Have shipped polished, customer-facing web experiences and can point to real work in production * Are fluent in both design and frontend implementation, and you prefer eliminating handoffs by owning the whole loop * Care deeply about craft details, including typography, spacing, responsiveness, motion, and interaction feel * Can prototype quickly, validate with real feedback, and iterate without losing coherence or quality * Use AI tools effectively to speed up coding and creative production, and you can critique and refine outputs rather than accepting them as-is * Are product-minded and narrative-driven, and you ask what the user needs to understand, feel, and do next * Prefer in-person collaboration and fast decision cycles ### Bonus points * Experience building or extending a design system in code * Comfort with animation and micro-interactions, including motion guidelines and implementation * Strong writing and editorial taste for landing page messaging and information architecture * Experience producing brand assets using generative image and video workflows while keeping results consistent and on-brand ### Compensation & benefits * Competitive salary + significant equity * Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off * Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family * Fancy lunches, plus snacks, coffee, or boba * Relocation support to NYC if needed ### Apply Send a short note, portfolio links, and your LinkedIn/GitHub to careers@appliedlabs.com (or apply on our site). ## Apply [Apply on Appliedlabs]() Canonical job page: