Design Engineer, AI Platforms

Be an Early Applicant Remote Hiring Remotely in USA Senior level Remote Hiring Remotely in USA Senior level Own the design and front-end implementation of Chess.com’s internal growth, AI knowledge, agent, and admin platforms. Create polished UI/UX, translate designs into production-ready interfaces, improve interaction and motion quality, and evolve the design system. Prototype rapidly with Cursor and Claude, design AI-native workflows, collaborate across a distributed team, review code, and ship end-to-end frontend experiences. The summary above was generated by AI, We are looking for a design engineer to own the interfaces of the platforms Chess.com runs on: Engage-o-tron, our growth platform; GNS, our AI-native knowledge and agent platform; and the internal admin tools our teams live in every day.

These are internal products, and that’s the appeal. Your users are experts, they use these tools all day, and what they build in them reaches 250M+ players. The work is dense, technical, and high-leverage.

You’ll decide how something should look, feel, and work, then ship it yourself. No handoff, no spec thrown over a wall.

Two kinds of people fit this role. The full-stack designer who’s dreamed something up, designed it, built it, and launched it end to end. Or the strong front-end engineer with real design taste, someone who codes for a living but has defensible opinions about type, layout, motion, and information density. We care about the combination, not which side you started on., * Design compelling, clear UI/UX and produce high-quality mocks that demonstrate strong product taste.

• Turn design mocks (yours or others’) into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontends using modern web tech.
• Iterate on existing interfaces by improving layout, interaction quality, motion, and design consistency.
• Work closely with engineers, partners, and stakeholders. You’ll support the design and implementation of features end-to-end.
• Rapidly prototype and “vibe code” to explore ideas, gather feedback, and iterate quickly.
• Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and patterns that raise the bar for frontend quality
• You will own and evolve the design system: the components, tokens, and patterns that let everyone ship UI fast
• You will use Cursor and Claude to build technologies that are AI-first
• You will prototype your own ideas and ship production polish end to end
• You will design the interface layer for AI-native workflows: streaming, long-running agent runs, tool-calling surfaces
• You will code! A lot!
• You will do code reviews, Deliver generative AI-enabled source code review and application security engagements. Coordinate with leadership, organize resources, refine and present assessment findings, document recommendations, and mentor junior red team members. Support penetration testing projects, including external and web application testing, while managing engagement delivery and improving security assessment technologies and workflows.

You have an eye, you can’t unsee bad spacing or a muddled information hierarchy, and you take pride in writing high-quality, high-performance code. You’re AI-first by conviction, not by mandate: you already build with AI-native editors and you see them as an amplifier of solid skills, not a threat to them. You’re energized rather than bored by enterprise, technical, developer-facing product, because making the complicated feel simple is the whole job. And you want the range and ownership that only exist when one person owns the whole front-end., * Hands-on experience fluency prompting and building AI-native development tools like (Claude Code, Cursor) as part of their daily workflow-and genuinely excited to use them to move fast on early ideas (this is core to how this team works)

• Cares deeply about polish. Defensible, articulate taste in typography, spacing, layout, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density.
• Strong practical skills in modern web technologies (TypeScript, Vue, React or equivalent), with real experience building and owning a design system in code.
• Contributed to open source UI libraries or design resources.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility

Preferred Skills

• Strong UX and visual design skills with proven taste and craftsmanship.
• Ability to move fluidly between design tools (Figma, etc.) and frontend code.
• Background in internal tools, admin dashboards, or developer-facing products.
• Fluency prompting and building with AI-native code editors (Claude Code, Cursor) as part of your daily workflow
• Instincts for prompt engineering and LLM integration, and for how model behavior (latency, streaming, uncertainty, failure modes) should surface in the UI
• Experience building AI-native interface patterns: streaming output, agentic or long-running tasks, or tool-calling surfaces
• Comfort designing or consuming APIs that serve front-end applications, clean contracts, performance, reliability at the boundary
• Strong collaboration and communication skills working in a fully distributed team
• Sense of ownership and responsibility, Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication. Top Skills: AIApplied CryptographyAWSAzureCi/CdDnsGCPGoHttp/SHybrid Cloud NetworkingPrivate EndpointsPythonService MeshesShell ScriptingTcp/IpTlsTransit GatewaysVpcsZero Trust Architecture

115K-160K Annually Senior level 115K-160K Annually Senior level Cloud * Computer Vision * Information Technology * Sales * Security * Cybersecurity Conduct AWS cloud threat hunting for global clients using Falcon, threat intelligence, cloud logs, queries, and scripts. Review configurations, identify adversarial activity and unauthorized access risks, develop defensive recommendations, and manage client projects. Communicate findings through technical reports, presentations, and stakeholder briefings, including to CISO-level audiences, regulators, and legal counsel. Top Skills: AWSAws-Native ServicesCi/CdCloud Control PlaneCloud LoggingCloud NetworkingCloud SecurityData SecurityFalconGoIdentity And Access ManagementPythonThreat IntelligenceWorkload Security

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Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the global chess community. We are here to support 250M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community!

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.