# Founding Design Engineer

Our mission is to automate knowledge work. Sim is a platform to build autonomous AI agents for enterprise systems. Teams connect their integrations and Sim builds a knowledge graph of company data and processes; from there, they work with Sim to build and monitor the AI agents and workflows that run production systems. Sim is talent-dense. We're looking for special people who are mission-driven, passionate, and creative. We're a team of 10 working full-time, in person in San Francisco. We have a flat organization: you'll work directly with the founders and own your work from idea to execution. We sponsor visas. About the Role Design engineers own the feel of Sim and the code that brings it to life. You'll combine strong engineering fundamentals with design taste to take interfaces from early exploration to production: defining interaction models, building prototypes, and shipping performant, accessible code. You'll work across component architecture, application state, and the details of motion and layout to make complex agent workflows feel intuitive. What you learn from users will shape both the product's design and its implementation. You may be a fit if You combine strong engin

- **Id**: 735540
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/sim-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-02T17:51:58Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:03:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 160
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2238
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 685799
- **Name**: Sim
- **Domain**: sim.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/sim-7>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 190000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 159

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-11T10:56:45Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.208
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 159
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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