Skip to main content

Conductor

Founding Design Engineer

San FranciscofulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Conductor is seeking a founding design engineer to shape the interfaces of its AI-powered coding agent platform used by engineers at major companies. You'll partner with co-founders to ideate, design, prototype, and build beautiful, intuitive interfaces for next-generation development tools.

What you'll do

  • Design and prototype user interfaces for AI-powered coding agent tools
  • Collaborate with users to understand needs and gather feedback
  • Bridge design and engineering to deliver polished products
  • Contribute ideas to product direction and strategy
  • Help establish design standards and best practices
  • Ship features rapidly while maintaining high craft standards

What they're looking for

  • Design thinking and prototyping
  • Full-stack product development capability
  • Strong opinions about software design
  • User research and feedback incorporation
  • Rapid iteration and shipping
  • IDE/developer tools familiarity
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript or equivalent frontend skills
  • Product sense and taste

Benefits

  • Competitive median salary with 90th percentile equity
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage (Aetna PPO, Guardian plans)
  • Broad expense policy for productivity needs
  • In-person collaboration in San Francisco office
  • Small team with significant growth and impact potential
  • Work with exceptional co-founders and investors
Apply with Autofill

Opens the application — the Jobs AI extension fills it for you. Set up autofill

Opens the official application on the employer’s site. No login required.

Conductor

Conductor builds AI-powered coding agents that help developers write and understand code more efficiently. The company is hiring founding-level engineers and designers to shape the interfaces and core product of its developer-focused platform.

View all jobs at Conductor

Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you shipped a feature quickly while maintaining craft and quality. What trade-offs did you make, and why?
  • Describe your experience designing interfaces for developer tools or IDEs. What made them intuitive or frustrating?
Unlock all 7 questions free — and practice them live →