Member of Technical Staff, Founding Design Engineer
About the role
Experienced Design Engineer (designer who codes or engineer who designs) to transform website, product, and brand with full creative ownership in an early-stage startup. High-agency, high-impact role reporting to founders in SF.
Responsibilities
- Take full creative ownership to craft high-quality interactions, prototypes, and experiences for website, product, and brand.
- Use code as a design tool to solve design challenges and bring bold ideas to life.
- Lead design-driven projects and shape the future of brand and products.
- Collaborate with marketing and design teams across the organization.
- Participate in a paid work trial to demonstrate capabilities.
Qualifications
- 2+ years or equivalent demonstrated experience developing software and UI/UX interfaces.
- Excellent understanding of Next.js and Vercel, CMS platforms like Contentful, analytics platforms like PostHog, and design tools like Figma and Spline.
- Skills and understanding of graphic design (layout, typography, color, illustration).
- Experience collaborating with marketing and design teams in prior roles.
- Willingness to work in person at the SF office.
Skills
Benefits
- 401K
- Health Insurance (Dental + Vision)
- Annual Company Retreats
- Monthly Mental Health Stipend
- Work setup stipend (MacBook Pro, Monitor, & Accessories)

About Ocular AI
AI-Native Data Engine for LLMs, Computer Vision, & Enterprise AI
Ocular AI is the data annotation engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI models. We help you transform unstructured, multi-modal data into golden datasets to power generative AI, frontier models, and computer vision. Ocular Foundry is the most intuitive, data-centric, and fastest platform that lets you label, annotate, version, and deploy your data for training models. It also orchestrates your annotation jobs, improving collaboration with members and annotators. With Ocular Bolt, shift from humans in the loop to experts in the loop to supercharge your data labeling and annotation projects. Our global expert workforce ensures fast, accurate results—no matter the scale or complexity of your data. Companies spend huge amounts on training data, but Foundry and Bolt are AI-native tools that lower costs, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-quality data collection. We’re replacing outdated, clunky, and expensive data software!
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