Skip to main content

Credal

Founding Design Engineer

Credal HQ (Brooklyn, NY)$0.2k–$0.2kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Credal seeks its first Design Engineer to establish the design function and visual language for a frontier AI platform serving major institutions. You'll own product UI, design systems, and front-end implementation (70% design, 30% code) to bridge the gap between sophisticated backend capabilities and user clarity.

What you'll do

  • Translate company strategy and user needs into intuitive product UI and user stories
  • Build and evolve a scalable design system with reusable components and patterns
  • Author front-end code to prototype ideas, maintain the design system, and ship polish independently
  • Synthesize user research and team input into compelling visual narratives
  • Define design conventions for AI-driven enterprise software where industry standards don't yet exist
  • Act as a force multiplier for the engineering team through thoughtful, systems-based solutions

What they're looking for

  • Product design and UI/UX design
  • Design systems and component architecture
  • Front-end development (React, CSS, HTML)
  • Information architecture and complexity simplification
  • Typography, layout, motion, and visual hierarchy
  • User research and stakeholder synthesis
  • Prototyping and rapid iteration
  • Enterprise and technical product experience

Benefits

  • Free team lunch and dinner daily
  • Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life, and disability coverage with HSA options
  • Unlimited PTO plus guaranteed two weeks off in December
  • Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • Housing subsidy for Brooklyn residents
  • Situational hybrid work flexibility
Apply on the employer's site

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

Credal

Credal builds enterprise AI solutions designed for high-stakes industries with a focus on security and governance. The company is hiring Customer Deployment Engineers to support customer onboarding, proof-of-concept development, and product strategy through technical partnerships.

View all jobs at Credal

Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a complex product you've designed where you had to make sophisticated concepts intuitive for users.
  • How do you approach building a design system from scratch, and what principles guide your component architecture?