UX Engineer

This isn't a traditional product designer role, and it isn't a traditional front-end engineering role either. We're looking for someone who can move seamlessly from customer problems to interaction design to production-ready prototypes - the connective tissue between product strategy, design, and engineering. Responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end UX design and rapid prototyping for new product initiatives, from concept through implementation-ready design
• Build interactive, near-production-quality prototypes using React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks to validate ideas before full engineering investment
• Partner with Engineering to validate technical feasibility early and reduce handoff friction
• Help establish and evolve reusable UI patterns, components, and Reality Defender's broader design system
• Advocate for usability, accessibility, and thoughtful interaction design across the platform
• Work alongside Product Managers to define customer experiences before development begins
• Facilitate cross-team alignment by making complex ideas tangible through prototypes and visual storytelling

• 5+ years designing and building modern SaaS applications
• Strong portfolio demonstrating both UX design and front-end implementation
• Expertise with Figma and modern prototyping tools
• Experience building interfaces using React, TypeScript, or similar front-end frameworks
• Strong understanding of interaction design, usability, and accessibility
• Ability to rapidly move from concept to prototype
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, and comfort in a fast-moving startup environment
• Nice to have: enterprise software design experience, AI or cybersecurity product experience, familiarity with design systems and component libraries, user research/usability testing experience, or motion/interaction animation experience, * Be embedded within Product and Engineering workflows
• Be up to speed on Reality Defender's current design system, tooling, and prototyping stack
• Have shadowed the existing design-to-development handoff processWithin 3 months, you'll…

Within 3 months, you'll…

• Have delivered prototypes for at least one key product initiative
• Have shipped a concrete improvement to the design-to-development handoff process
• Have identified specific opportunities to streamline UX across the platform

Within 6 months, you'll…

• Have a repeatable design and prototyping process running
• Have measurably reduced iteration time on at least one product initiative
• Have contributed meaningfully to the evolution of the design system

$100,000 - $150,000 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Parental leave
• 401(k)
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Health savings account
• Dental insurance, * Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents
• Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents
• Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees
• FSA/HSA and 401k programs
• Equity compensation
• 20 days of PTO per year
• 12 weeks of Parental Leave
• Learning and Development budget
• Monthly wellness benefits
• Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender's HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

• Daily in-office lunch through UberEats
• Commuter benefits
• Remote Fridays
• Happy Hours and other local events

Compensation Range: $100K - $150K

Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time. Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.