# Design Engineer at Gooseworks

- Company: Gooseworks (YC W23)
- What the company does: Self-Improving Ad Creative Engines. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://gooseworks.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US / Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $50K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gooseworks/jobs/XZRrah7-design-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/gooseworks-design-engineer/

## About the role

Product design. You'll design end-to-end user experiences, and raise the design bar for our product and brand. The design language, for agents. Teaching AI agents how to design really well.

## What they're looking for

- You're a designer first. Real design work, shipped and live — not a case-study deck. We'll open the thing
- You ship your own frontend. React, Next.js, Tailwind. You don't need to be a systems engineer, but you do need to be able to get your work in front of users yourself
- Product and UX judgment. You can argue about what to build and why it should feel a particular way
- A technical foundation. Studied CS, worked as an engineer, or otherwise came at design from the technical side. Not required, but a strong plus point
- Nice to have: founding-designer experience at an early startup, motion or video ability, prior work in an AI-native product
- If you design things that look considered, ship them yourself, and have opinions about how agents should be taught to build — send us the link

Tags: Design