# Founding Design Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $180K – $220K - Posted: August 26, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a founding-level frontend role at a seed-stage B2B SaaS startup building an AI-native pricing intelligence platform. You'll own the entire frontend design system — tokens, component library, and interface patterns — ensuring everything shipped, whether by humans or AI coding agents, feels like one cohesive product. As the sole bar-raiser for frontend UX, your work directly shapes how enterprise customers experience pricing strategy and deal intelligence. ### What You'll Do * Define and maintain the design token system, shadcn/ui-based component library, and Tailwind conventions across the full product suite. * Enforce consistent frontend patterns using React Query, React Hook Form, and Zod so that agent-generated PRs land coherently by default. * Audit and own frontend tooling and quality, including Biome configuration, Playwright E2E coverage, and frontend performance. * Integrate brand guidelines and WCAG accessibility rules directly into the codebase and lint rules. * Translate design intent into component abstractions and tooling guardrails that scale as the team and AI agents ship more UI. * Work with AI coding tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) as a first-class part of your daily workflow and help the team integrate them into frontend processes. * Shape conversational and streaming UI patterns for the platform's AI-native interfaces. ### What We're Looking For * 5+ years building polished, production product interfaces with a strong portfolio of shipped features. * Proven primary ownership of a design system or component library in production (public repo or detailed walkthrough required). * Deep expertise in React, strict TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and component primitives such as shadcn/ui and Radix UI. * Hands-on experience with AI coding tools in production workflows. * Comfort being the sole frontend UX standard-setter across a fast-moving, small team. * **Nice to have:** Experience with non-standard AI interfaces (streaming responses, generative views), conversational/chatbot UIs for B2B users, animation libraries like Framer Motion, or constrained UI environments such as Slack Block Kit or Teams Adaptive Cards. * Must be authorized to work in the US — visa sponsorship is not available. ### Compensation & Benefits Base salary: **$180,000 – $220,000 USD** annually. Equity participation expected at the founding team level. No visa sponsorship available. ### Location On-site in **San Francisco, CA**. This is not a remote role. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: