# Founding Design Engineer

United States only: remote today, with eventual relocation as the team centralizes. Full-time. Reports to the co-founders. Own how Helmsted looks, feels and works for wealth advisors of complex households, and ship it yourself in production code. About Helmsted Advisors use Helmsted for financial planning, tax and estate analysis, meetings and their client portal, and our goal is to replace a firm's entire tech stack. We are a small team, live with pilot firms and shipping every day. The role You will sit alongside our engineers and own everything an advisor and their clients see. You design a screen and build it in our real codebase, so ideas reach pilot firms in days, not sprints. As more of the work is done by agents, your job is to make that work easy to review, trust and act on: an advisor should understand what Helmsted did, why, and what it needs from them at a glance. What you'll do Design and ship product UI end to end in our React and TypeScript codebase, through code review, to production Design how advisors work with agents: drafts, sources, confidence, approvals, undo and hand-offs back to a person Build and own our design system and component library so every new sc

- **Id**: 3866126
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/helmsted-founding-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
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- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T21:32:50Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T21:32:50Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 1
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- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Services, Wealth Management & Financial Advisors

## Company

- **Id**: 4503047
- **Name**: Helmsted
- **Domain**: helmsted.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/helmsted>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
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- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T12:13:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: seen:1, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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