Founding Design Engineer

About Helium

Self Improving Software

Tech

Here are the technical problems you're solving: • **RL for software personalization** - dynamic assignment of price, paywalls, and experiences to different users based on what improves metrics • **Automated a/b testing** - building systems that automatically chooses and runs new paywall experiments to run based on analytics + codegen models • **AI editor** - think Bolt/Lovable for paywalls • **Billion scale content serving** - we're building a python service to process thousands of QPS that serving assets to millions of phones daily → soon to be billions • **Mobile webview optimization** - building a webview layer that feels native across 4 mobile stacks

The role

**Helium is building Self-Improving Software**: AI that automatically generates & tests new software experiences to lift revenue. We’re…* **Talent-dense** (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)* **Well-funded** ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)* **Fast-growing** (Serving tens of millions of AI experiences per day for top consumer companies).AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that…* **🔴 We work hard — In-Office Monday–Friday + often push through weekends 🔴**# **What You’ll Do****Own design across Helium’s entire AI Experience generation product, including…*** Design and implement end-to-end user flows including… * Using Helium’s AI editor to generate new in-app experiences * Running experiments and automatically analyzing results * Receiving and critiquing auto-generated experiences* Help engineers think through UX challenges and critique / uplevel design generally* Build out a visual identity and a design system* Work directly with the founders to help build out our team.* Talk to customers every week about how to simplify and improve our product* Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.# **What We’re Looking For****You should be a designer-who-codes (or an engineer with taste)*** 1-4+ years as a product designer, frontend engineer, or similar role combining design and implementation* Deep expertise in modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, modern CSS)* Excellent design taste and a keen eye for detail* Track record of making complex user flows intuitive (Making “The simple simple and the complex possible”)# **Nice To Haves*** Experience designing interfaces for AI products or ML-powered features* Experience optimizing frontend performance and reducing latency* Experience with brand, visual design, or creating design systems.* Founder experience# **Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit*** You’d like to spend weeks perfecting every experience* You avoid Cursor or AI coding tools.* You don’t want to talk to customers or figure out the end-to-end plan for features.# **Requirements**🔴 Note 🔴* This is a **full-time, in-person role** based in **San Francisco** - we work from the office **6 days a week** (Mon-Sat)* You must be **based in the Bay Area** or willing to **relocate before starting**.* We require **US work authorization**, but are open to **O-1 visa sponsorship** for truly exceptional candidates.# **Our stack:*** Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand* AI (vercel) SDK* Tailwind/Shadcn* Supabase* Clickhouse* Golang/[**Fly.io**](http://Fly.io)* Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo, AndroidRequires Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar fields.