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# Founding Design Engineer

- **Company:** Helmsted, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $150,000 - $175,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Code Review, Cursor, Software Product Management, Responsive Web Design, TypeScript, ReactJS, Claude Code, Git, Material UI, Front End Software Development
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/pyvzen3j0t

## About the Role

* Portfolio of products personally designed and built that real people use.
 * Strong product design fundamentals.
 * Production front-end skills: React, TypeScript, modern CSS, component libraries, git and pull requests.
 * Comfort working safely in a shared codebase and knowing when to involve an engineer.
 * Regular use of AI tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, with judgment to check and fix their output.
 * Opinions on AI product UX, including streaming, citations, uncertainty and human approval.
 * High agency and ability to identify problems, decide with imperfect information and ship.

Nice to have: fintech or wealthtech experience; dense data-heavy professional tools; startup design-system ownership; agent/AI-native product design; data visualization and reporting; mobile and responsive design for professional users.

## Description

* Design and ship product UI end to end in the React and TypeScript codebase, through code review, to production.
 * Design how advisors work with agents, including drafts, sources, confidence, approvals, undo and hand-offs to a person.
 * Build and own the design system and component library.
 * Make dense financial data clear on desktop and usable on a phone.
 * Prototype in code with pilot advisors and turn successful ideas into production features.
 * Improve polish, interaction, motion, empty and error states, accessibility and speed.
 * Work directly with pilot-firm advisors, observe their use, and address friction.