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Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes.\nBuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build-the canonical definition of how a product is produced.\nAbout The Company\nDirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes.\nBuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build-the canonical definition of how a product is produced. Figma owns the design file, GitHub owns the repo, Dirac owns the Build. We’re looking for an early Product Designer to define how that suite works and feels. You’ll build serious tools for technical users in a domain where great design can fundamentally change how someone works. We’re a small team that values autonomy, quality, feedback, and a bias toward action.\nAbout The Role\nYou will own projects from pencil to release, working across user research, product strategy, prototyping, interaction design, visual design, and frontend development. You'll shape both Structure-flows, information architecture, and wireframes-and Surface-layout, typography, color, and interaction polish.\nResponsibilities\nDesign across BuildOS, including 3D CAD interaction, structured data authoring, document generation, and shop floor workflows.\nDefine the patterns, primitives, and interactions that make complex workflows feel like one coherent product.\nUnderstand the spreadsheets, internal tools, and manual processes users rely on today, then design replacements that are faster, more complete, and more trustworthy.\nBecome fluent in manufacturing workflows, including BOMs, BOPs, work instructions, GD&T, PMI, revision control, work centers, and takt time.\nWork directly with manufacturing engineers, operators, and customers, including spending time on factory floors.\nHelp establish Dirac’s design language, design system, and product standards as Build OS grows.\nPartner closely with Product and Engineering from early exploration through implementation and release.\nContribute beyond traditional product design through user research, prototyping, frontend development, and product polish.\nRequirements\n5+ years of product design experience, ideally designing complex B2B, technical, or professional software.\nHigh technical acumen and experience designing complex systems, workflows, and information-heavy interfaces.\nStrong interaction and visual design skills, from early concepts and prototypes through polished production-ready designs.\nExperience owning projects end-to-end, including research, problem definition, design, implementation, and release.\nStrong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, business priorities, and speed.\nHigh attention to detail and a strong bar for craft, usability, and visual quality.\nAbility to self-direct, prioritize independently, and thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.\nExperience using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.\nFamiliarity with user research, usability testing, and prototyping.\nAbility to clearly communicate design decisions and rationale across Product and Engineering.\nA bias toward shipping and iteration over perfection.\nCuriosity about how physical things get made. Manufacturing experience is not required, but you should want to build that expertise.\nNice to Have\nExperience designing CAD, PLM, EDA, developer tools, data tools, industrial software, or other professional-grade applications.\nExperience designing complex data models, tables, hierarchical information, timelines, graphs, or 3D/spatial interfaces.\nExperience building or maintaining a design system.\nAbility to contribute frontend code, particularly with React, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS.\nExperience designing zero-to-one products or working at an early-stage startup.\nExperience conducting research with specialized technical users.\nExposure to manufacturing, mechanical engineering, robotics, aerospace, automotive, industrial engineering, or hardware development.\nWhy This Role\nCAD and PLM describe what a product is. ERP and MES record that production happened. Neither describes how the product gets built. There is no established software layer for this work and no established design language for it either. You will have the opportunity to define both.\nOur users are manufacturing engineers who have spent their careers working around tools that were not built for them. This is an opportunity to define the interaction model and design language for an entirely new category of software.\nNew York Pay Range\n$150,000—$200,000 USD\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nDirac is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Dirac is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.\nEligibility\nEmployment is restricted to U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR § 120.62)\n Benefits:\n- Health, Dental, Vision Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to ensure you and your family stay healthy.\n- Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy flexible, high-trust PTO and sick leave.\n- Stock Options: Participate in our success with a generous stock option plan.\n- Commuter Benefits (NYC): Save on transportation costs with our commuter benefits program.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6282,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Stock options","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T00:15:27Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:4","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/return-product-designer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/return-product-designer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T03:31:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3300,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1700,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}