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# Design Engineer

- **Company:** RHO Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Computer Animation, Artificial Intelligence, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Browsers, TypeScript, ReactJS
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/design-engineer-new-york-ny--63f30c45-82d3-47e0-ba97-3851a2a36668

## About the Role

Technical/Engineering Design, Expense Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Banking Services, Startup, Technical/Engineering Design, Web Browsers, Animation, Product Design, Product Requirements Document (PRD), You've been doing this for a while, and you have the receipts: at least 7 years building production interfaces, with a body of work that is visibly, unusually crafted. This is a lead role: you set the craft bar for the feel of the product and raise everyone around you to it, through the work itself and the systems you leave behind. We need to see it. A portfolio, a personal site, a component library, shipped work, live demos, something we can open and feel the care in.

## Description

* Thinks Emil Kowalski and Josh Puckett are describing the job, not the aspiration. If those names mean nothing to you, this role probably isn't yours yet. If they make you nod, keep reading.
 * Has strong opinions about motion. You know why the default ease is wrong, when a spring beats a curve, what makes an animation feel expensive versus cheap, and when the answer is no animation at all. You can defend every one of these.
 * Writes real code. React, TypeScript, CSS at a level where you're building the hard interaction, not styling someone else's. You've probably published a library, or wanted to.
 * Is a genuine craftsperson, not a generalist who dabbles in polish. Your happiest hours are spent alone with a hard interaction problem, iterating past the point most people would call it done.
 * Has taste and can't turn it off. Sloppy motion physically bothers you. You notice the jank in other people's products. You've rebuilt things for free just because they annoyed you.