Design Engineer

About Dedalus Labs

Compute substrate for AI agents

Tech

We’re building the persistent compute layer for long-running AI agents. Our engineering work spans: - Distributed systems, distributed storage, scheduling, and orchestration - Virtualization, sandboxing, containers, and secure multi-tenant infrastructure - Operating systems, networking, concurrency, and low-level runtimes - Performance engineering across latency, throughput, memory, and reliability - Systems programming in Rust, Go, C, and C++ - Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure - React, TypeScript, Next.js, Vite, and Tailwind CSS - Real-time interfaces, streaming, motion, WebGL, and modern browser technologies - Developer tooling that makes complex infrastructure feel simple We care deeply about elegant abstractions, principled engineering tradeoffs, and production systems that remain fast and reliable when things go wrong.

The role

# Design Engineer @ Dedalus Labs## MissionDedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents.We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future. ## You might be a fit if you- Are obsessive about user experience.- Measure thrice, cut once.- Sweat the small details.- Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts.- Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology.- Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going.- Think the internet should be faster.- Have shipped amazing work.- Understand why a spring beats a tween.- Care about optimal bundling strategies.- View software engineering as simply moving typed data around.- Believe actions speak louder than words.- Are high agency and fiercely independent.- Say how things ought to be built, then build them.- Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold.- Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback.- Go above and beyond in everything you do. ## What we look for- Fluency with AI coding tools.- Deep expertise in React and TypeScript.- Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix.- Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS.- Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns.- Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts.- Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states.- Responsive, accessible work.- Modern CSS you are a little smug about. ## Nice-to-have- Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools.- High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the `oxc` stack, etc.- Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU.- Open-source contributions we can look at.- Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet.- Experience writing APIs.- Comfort with Supabase or a similar database.- Strong knowledge of types.- Interest in category theory. ## TasteYou know what good looks like. ## Logistics- In person in San Francisco.- Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants.- We sponsor visas. ## TipsThe first thing we look at is your GitHub and your personal website. Show us the best version of yourself!