{"id":1479886,"url":"https://alion.io/job/superset-founding-design-engineer","title":"Founding Design Engineer","company":{"id":1996182,"name":"Superset","domain":"superset.sh","url":"https://alion.io/company/superset-sh","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Work at a Startup","truth_index":null},"role":"Industrial Engineering","role_family":"Industrial Engineering","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":175000,"max":225000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":225000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Figma","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Superset","optional":false},{"name":"Tailwind CSS","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T20:27:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T13:45:01Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About Superset\nSuperset is building self-improving software and defining the next way software gets made. Tens of thousands of engineers already use Superset as their primary IDE, including engineers at Wix, DoorDash, and Netflix.\nAs agents take on more of the coding, how should people direct the work, understand what’s happening, and decide what ships? We’re looking for a founding design engineer to help define that experience.\nYou’ll partner closely with our CPO to shape the product, owning design and frontend implementation from early exploration through production in React and TypeScript. You’ll also define how Superset presents itself to the world through our brand and website.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign and build the workflows engineers use to coordinate agents, understand their progress, step in when needed, and review their work.\nOwn our visual direction across the product, website, and launch pages.\nPrototype quickly, then refine the details-from typography and motion to keyboard interactions and accessibility.\nTalk directly with users, use feedback and product data to guide decisions, and improve the experience after it ships.\nBuild reusable components and interaction patterns that help the team ship faster.\nIn your first 90 days, you’ll establish our visual direction, launch a new homepage, and ship a meaningful improvement to the product experience.\nAbout you\nYou’ve shipped polished interfaces and can explain what you designed and coded.\nYou bring strong visual and interaction craft and have made technical or data-rich products understandable without removing the control advanced users need.\nYou have strong visual taste and are comfortable designing and prototyping in Figma.\nYou can build and debug production UI with React, TypeScript, CSS, and Tailwind.\nYou use coding agents daily and can work independently.\nYou can work in person in San Francisco five days a week.\nBonus if you:\nHave experience with dev tools, chat applications, collaborative/multiplayer design tools\nHave shipped AI or agent experiences, especially workflows that move between human approval and autonomous action.\nHave an engineering background or experience building agent-facing interfaces\nAbout us\nWe’re a small team founded by three former YC CTOs, backed by $11.5 million from some of the best investors the the valley. We built Superset in Superset, so we use what we ship every day. We’re source-available, so your work will be public and used by a community of engineers.\nWe believe design will play a defining role in how people build software with agents. You’ll work closely with our CPO and founders, with the ownership to challenge assumptions, shape the product, and take ideas into production.\nCompensation and benefits\n$175k-$225k base plus 1.0%-1.5% equity.\nWe cover Kaiser Platinum 90 HMO 0/10 healthcare and Guardian 1500 dental plans, and offer a Guideline 401(k), unlimited time off, a $5k desk stipend, and meals in the office.\nApply\nPlease share a polished interface you shipped and a website or brand project. One project can cover both. 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