# Founding Design Engineer

What is PayMe PayMe helps people find and claim money they are already owed. It sits at the intersection of consumer product, trust, conversion, and financial outcomes. That makes design unusually important. The product has to feel clear, trustworthy, and worth acting on. What we need PayMe needs a founding designer who owns the frontend experience end to end. This person should make the product clearer, tighter, more trustworthy, and more worth paying for. The center of gravity is design. Taste matters more than raw engineering depth. But this cannot be a pure designer. We want someone who has already crossed into shipping real product work, mostly with modern AI tools. Who you are Strong consumer app taste Real product thinking Meaningful shipped work, either a large side project or an awesome feature at work Clear explanation of what you designed versus what you built Real interest in moving further into engineering over time Why it's exciting You will own the frontend experience, not just a slice of it You will work on the highest-leverage parts of the product: onboarding, activation, paywall, and conversion You will have real influence over how PayMe feels and performs

- **Id**: 82656
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/kinetic-founding-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-08T18:38:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-04-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:29:42Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 215
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2308
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 33701
- **Name**: Kinetic
- **Domain**: kinetic.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/kinetic>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 180000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 180000

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 214

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-04-08T18:38:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 4
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.134
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 214
- **Expected fill days**: 25
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 180000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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