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AI Summary
Dryft is seeking a Founding Design Engineer to build intuitive user interfaces for AI Agents in manufacturing operations. This role requires a blend of engineering and design expertise to transform complex industrial data into transparent, high-trust experiences. You will work directly with leadership and customers, shipping end-to-end features with a strong product sense and a passion for design.
Key Highlights
Build magical user interfaces for AI Agents.
Make complex industrial data and decision logic intuitive and transparent.
Empower users with confidence and speed through high-trust experiences.
Work directly with CEO, CTO, and customers.
Shipped production features end-to-end.
Strong product sense and customer interaction skills.
Obsessed with design and attention to detail.
Onsite work in San Francisco.
Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Relocation support
Visa sponsorship
Job Description
DRYFT
Dryft builds intelligent systems that automate complex human decisions in manufacturing operations
We’re a small, talent-dense team with modest roots and a love for the physical world - cars, machines, planes. Our team includes graduates from Stanford, Berkeley, CDTM, TUM, winners of Stanford TreeHacks, recipients of Fulbright & Haniel scholarships, and builders of everything from robots and race cars to software with millions of downloads.
We’re backed by the founders and leaders behind Amazon, Facebook, Stripe, Applied Intuition, & others; General Catalyst & Neo, and board members of global industrial companies.
Today, we’re already saving customers millions. But this is only the beginning. ERPs ran the physical world for half a century. Dryft is powering the next.
THE ROLE
As Founding Design Engineer, you’ll work directly with our CEO, CTO, and customers to build magical user interfaces for our AI Agents. Your mission is to make the complex intuitive, transforming dense industrial data and decision logic into transparent, high-trust experiences that empower users to act with confidence and speed.
YOU
- Are an engineer turned designer, or vice versa, or always have been the one on the team understanding the value of easy-to-use interfaces.
- Shipped production features end-to-end. While stronger in FE, you can handle BE too.
- Have a strong product sense and enjoy working directly with customers
- You obsess over design, pay attention to details and are always the first to explore best-in-class products
- Are ready to work onsite in SF (we support relocation & visa)
- FE (TypeScript): React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite
- BE (Python): FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, PostgreSQL with pgvector, dagster
- AI: Pydantic AI, Langfuse
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