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Design Engineer

IdlerSan Francisco

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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 team

This 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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