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# Founding Design Engineer

- **Company:** Thomas Talent Network, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, TypeScript, Large Language Models, Information Technology, Figma, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** May 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/us862a9506353ff04b3eaf4c60c8cea1e7

## About the Role

Experience:

 * 2-6 years of relevant experience (no recent grads)

 * Designer who can code OR frontend engineer with strong design sense

 * Proven ability to ship production-level React + Figma work

 * Background in design school or computer science preferred

Mindset:

 * Product-minded and pragmatic

 * Strong bias to shipping over perfection

 * Experience building 0-to-1 products

 * Hands-on builder mentality

Ideal Background:

 * Former design or frontend leads at high-quality product or productivity startups

 * Bonus: Experience with AI/LLM products

NOT A FIT

 * Designers or engineers without production-level coding experience alongside design

 * Pure enterprise/B2B backgrounds (sales-led, non-product driven)

 * Senior leadership or IC roles without hands-on building

 * Recent graduates

 * Candidates without 0-to-1 product experience

## Description

As our Founding Design Engineer, you will:

 * Own product design and frontend development end-to-end, Role Overview: As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in TypeScript, you will play a pivotal role in designing and developing robust, scalable web applications. This positio…
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