Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs

Mission

Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.

We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future.

You might be a fit if you

Are obsessive about user experience.
Measure thrice, cut once.
Sweat the small details.
Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.
Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.
Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.
Think the internet should be faster.
Have shipped amazing work.
Understand why a spring beats a tween.
Care about optimal bundling strategies.
View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.
Believe actions speak louder than words.
Are high agency and fiercely independent.
Say how things ought to be built, then build them.
Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.
Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.
Go above and beyond in everything you do.

What we look for

Fluency with AI coding tools.
Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.
Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.
Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.
Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.
Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.
Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.
Responsive, accessible work.
Modern CSS you are a little smug about.

Nice-to-have

Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.
High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the oxc stack, etc.
Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.
Open-source contributions we can look at.
Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.
Experience writing APIs.
Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.
Strong knowledge of types.
Interest in category theory.

Taste

You know what good looks like.

Logistics

In person in San Francisco.
Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.
We sponsor visas.

Tips

The first thing we look at is your GitHub and your personal website. Show us the best version of yourself!

Dedalus Labs is an AI neolab building the compute substrate for an agent-native economy. Our flagship product, Dedalus Machines, gives AI agents fast, persistent computers where they can run continuously, maintain state, and actually do production-grade work.

We’re a small, high-agency team in SF solving hard problems across distributed systems, infrastructure, and developer experience. We love systems, think from first principles, care deeply about craft, and move quickly from ambitious ideas to production.

As part of the early team, you’ll have meaningful ownership, an unusually steep learning curve, and the opportunity to help define what an agent-native future should look like. If you’re independent, kind, intellectually curious, have high agency and excited to build foundational technology for the next generation of AI, we’d love to meet you.

Dedalus Labs

Design Engineer

About the role