# Design Engineer at Applied Compute

- Company: Applied Compute
- What the company does: Specific Intelligence for Your Business. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.appliedcompute.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Applied%20Compute/ace0c5db-fb15-44ab-b401-51d0914bb81d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/applied-compute-design-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a brand designer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll craft the brand and experience that makes Specific Intelligence legible and intuitive to our audience of engineers, researchers, and heads of AI/ML at some of the largest companies in the world.

## What they're looking for

- Strong brand and visual design chops, with a portfolio of public-facing work
- Technical fluency. We publish frontier work on post-training, RL, and async training, and would be excited to work with someone who finds this research exciting
- An engineer's instincts about our audience
- Hands on keyboard. We'd be eager to work with someone who has strong opinions and wants to execute them personally
- High agency and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-moving market

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