# Design Engineer at idler

- Company: idler
- What the company does: Push the frontier of your model. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://idler.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $125K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/idler/199e6e98-c12f-494f-8cd1-eba950d45860
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/idler-design-engineer/

## About the role

As a Design Engineer at idler, you'll own the visual design and user experience for our customers and internal team. You'll be tasked with producing beautiful applications, pages, interactions, and marketing materials that are a delight to view and use. Our RL environments are novel, complex artifacts that need to be easy to interact with and communicated well. You'll need a founder’s high-level thinking, a designer's taste, and an engineer's precision to succeed.

## What they're looking for

- Designed and implemented of a successful, full-stack product
- An excellent portfolio showcasing your design work
- Watched users interact with your software and quickly iterated until they loved it
- Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js)
- 2+ years of product experience

Tags: Engineering