Design Engineer
About the role
Design Engineer role at Scott AI, a YC-funded startup focusing on the planning layer for teams that build with coding agents.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on engineering and product initiatives to improve coordination around coding agents
- Contribute to the design and development of scalable software systems for Scott AI's planning layer
- Work with founders and engineering team to align on intent and reduce planning costs with AI-assisted tooling
- Participate in full-stack development and system design discussions
Qualifications
- Experience level: Any (new grads ok)
- US visa/citizenship required
Skills

About Scott AI
Agentic Workspace for Engineering Team Alignment
Scott AI is the agentic workspace where teams align on spec before any codegen runs. Teams already use multiple coding agents to build. Different coding agents will continue to evolve and have diverse strengths. An engineer will entrust a long-running agent to add dark-mode end-to-end while they pair carefully with an IDE-based agent to land a critical DB migration. These execution agents cannot be the decision layer because they are biased to their own tool, they are not neutral. Scott AI is the neutral, agent agnostic decision layer for the age of multi agent building. Teams will use Scott as their decision workspace to finally ditch google docs and notion as their primary spec alignment layer.
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