Design Engineer
San Francisco$125k - $300kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Design Engineer at idler, a frontier data research lab focused on building evals and environments for measuring and training frontier AI models. Role centers on owning visual design and user experience for customers and internal teams, creating unified UI/UX for RL environments, marketing materials, and data visualization.
Responsibilities
- Create a unified UI, layout and UX paradigm for inspecting and interacting with our RL environments that serves frontier labs and our internal team
- Build a standard library and templates for our marketing materials that are beautiful and compliant with design best practices
- Instrument and visualize our environment tracking system across hundreds of discrete steps and iterations per artifact
Qualifications
- Designed and implemented of a successful, full-stack product
- An excellent portfolio showcasing your design work
- Watched users interact with your software and quickly iterated until they loved it
- Strong experience with a modern web app stack (React, Typescript, Node.js)
- 2+ years of product experience
Skills
Required:Design and UI/UXPortfolio showcasing design workReactTypescriptNode.js
Benefits
- Competitive salary + meaningful equity
- Free meals in office
- Healthcare
- 401(k)
- 15 days of PTO per year
- Relocation assistance
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Idler
Scale AI for reinforcement learning environments.
Idler builds reinforcement learning environments that teach AI models to code at expert human levels. We create training environments based on real-world coding scenarios that prepare models for the complex challenges they'll face in production.
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