# Founding Product Designer at Inferact

- Company: Inferact
- What the company does: Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world. Backed by Sequoia and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://inferact.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-15
- Apply by: 2026-10-30
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact/f73d3f45-cdea-41a8-8144-acf504aa4fda
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inferact-founding-product-designer/

## About the role

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, Interactive Media, or a related field
- A strong portfolio or tech-forward personal website demonstrating exceptional craft, strong typography, layout, visual systems, and interactive UI/UX thinking
- AI-native operating style, using modern AI image, design, and code generators to explore concepts rapidly and ship production-ready assets
- High technical taste and fluency, with a track record of designing for developers, technical products, or complex systems
- End-to-end execution capability—able to take a rough idea or technical blog post and independently produce polished visuals, landing pages, or product mockups without needing prescribed steps
- Ability to collaborate credibly with technical founders, engineers, and product managers in a fast-paced, high-urgency startup environment

Tags: Product