# Staff Design Engineer at Campfire

- Company: Campfire
- What the company does: Campfire is the AI-native ERP built for lean finance teams. Automate reconciliations, close faster, and scale revenue without adding headcount. Backed by Accel, Y Combinator and Techstars.
- Company website: https://campfire.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-17
- Apply by: 2026-11-01
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/campfire/89f392f0-5ada-471f-aa4b-3f9deaedf9be
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/campfire-staff-design-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for a Staff Design Engineer to help shape the core experience of Campfire's ERP platform. You'll take on our thorniest, highest-leverage design problems — the ones that touch multiple teams, span complex workflows, and require deep systems thinking. This is a senior individual-contributor role: you'll set design direction, raise the bar for craft across the team, and partner directly with engineering and product leadership to ship work that materially changes how finance teams operate.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of product design experience, with a track record of owning complex, high-impact product areas end to end
- Experience designing for data-dense, workflow-heavy software (fintech, ERP, dev tools, B2B SaaS, or similar) is a strong plus
- Strong systems thinking — you can zoom out to see how a feature fits the broader product, and zoom in on pixel-level details
- A portfolio that shows range: 0-to-1 work, and rigorous iteration on existing systems
- Excellent communication skills, you can build alignment with engineers, PMs, and executives, and explain design rationale clearly
- Comfort working in ambiguity, with incomplete requirements, and evolving your own scope

Tags: Product