# Product Design Engineer

C1.ai is building a horizontal identity platform Identity is becoming the control plane for modern companies. Every organization runs on dozens-sometimes hundreds-of systems that need to answer the same basic question: who can do what, when, and why? The old approach doesn’t hold up. It’s either IT teams duct-taping systems together, or rigid IGA tools that only work across a narrow set of HR and SSO integrations. That’s not going to cut it for the next decade. We’re building something more foundational: a horizontal identity platform that any company-and increasingly, any AI agent-can plug into to understand and manage access. SaaS apps, infrastructure, internal tools, AI agents-if it has a concept of “who,” it should connect to us. We’re still small, and we move fast. If you want to help build this from the ground up, you’ll have real ownership here. The Role We're looking for a Design Engineer: someone who lives at the intersection of design thinking and hands-on building. This isn't a traditional design role where you hand off specs to engineering. You'll be designing and shipping, often in the same session, with agentic development as a core part of how you work. The right per

- **Id**: 3421362
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/c1-product-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Hardware
- **Role family**: Hardware
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Portland, United States, New York, United States, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T18:20:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T09:41:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 8
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4783
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Identity Management, Security Operations, Cybersecurity AI

## Company

- **Id**: 11182
- **Name**: C1
- **Domain**: c1.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/c1>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: C
- **Score**: 68
- **Open postings**: 13
- **Ghost share**: 0.538
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 105000
- **Max usd**: 238000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_country_seniority_unknown
- **Sample n**: 3123

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Figma** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 8

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T21:03:07Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 5; Filings 12m: 5; Filings prev 12m: 0; Green card filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 58
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.585
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 8
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

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