First and foremost, while AI is automating and speeding up every workflow, the most fundamentally valuable asset remains your judgment and taste: Taste in design, taste in schematics and a strong understanding of the trade-offs and limits of an approach.

This is one of the world’s few opportunities for an artist to join an early-stage tech company.

You will guide and refine our design and domain-specific languages. Your work will go beyond the traditional color schemes and UI screens to focus on consistency and coherence across interfaces, diverse input/output modalities, DSLs, navigation and general ergonomics (i.e., shortcuts, hotkeys, tool-use).

The key metric is reducing the cognitive and conceptual complexity of the product and developing a cohesive design language that spans across all aspects of the product, including icons, typography, layout, interactives, game assets, simulations, and so on.

• A refined artistic vision, sensibility, and taste.
• A history of making high-quality art, design, and thinking.

• Portfolio of previous art, music, cinematography, essays, UIs, apps showcasing your ideology, style, and evolution as a maker.
• Strong communication and writing skills – with both humans and AIs. You should be naturally inclined to use state-of-the-art tools to their fullest, including image generation models (Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, ComfyUI) and foundation models to directly translate Figma designs into UI components.
• Intuitive understanding of design principles, interaction design, complexity scaffolding, and HCI methodologies.

In this role, you will:
a) Reduce code and prompt complexity by refining our tech stack.
b) Automate internal processes through a variety of AI agents and interfaces.

Examples:

• Building novel, custom IDEs for prompt editing, testing, and versioning.
• Unifying prompt, code, and designs into a single interface that domain experts can iterate on and create pull requests with.
• Building custom transpilers, compilers, and debuggers until all that’s left is the inherent complexity of the domains we build for.
• Aspirational: a high-level specification language that is isomorphic with its transpile target, going far beyond the ideas of SpecLang.
• Create an AI simulacra user testing software of representative user cohort simulacra to UX test (headless browser + vision AI) whenever a new experimental feature goes into the staging branch.
• CLIs and VS (cursor.ai) code extensions applying AI-powered linting, language support, and integrations with the rest of our toolchain.
• Writing a simple UI-design search and review tool similar to exa.ai but for images.
• Designing modular plugin architectures for non-SWEs to easily switch out and create custom components (vite, convex, typescript, svelte plugins and adapters).
• General CI/CD, AIOps, API design.

Your interests and natural tendencies should include meta- and functional programming and a penchant for abstraction and structural elegance. You should be comfortable with scripting, full-stack development, AI and prompt design workflows (tool calling, vector search, templating, chunking, etc.).

You will be supporting our Design and Prompt Writing efforts. Tasks include:

• Writing prompts, testing variants against multiple LLMs, and gathering the best examples. The product already has 50+ prompts and every prompt should have 20+ varied examples of what constitutes high-quality output.
• Gathering, organizing, and improving our product requirements and specs.
• Gathering high-quality examples for our future designs – UIs, interactions, styles. They will serve as reference sets for future AI agents.
• Reviewing, classifying, and ranking AI outputs and flagging outliers in input/output samples.
• Running our Linear board and converting meeting notes into deliverables and instructions for both humans and agents.

You should:

• Have solid writing skills and good taste around design and prose.
• Be comfortable jumping in between numerous tools and know which one is best for the task, i.e., Exa, Perplexity, Figma, tldraw, Claude Artifacts.
• Be familiar with schemas, spreadsheets, flowcharts, and version control systems.