Design Engineer

Dedalus Labs is building the MCP gateway for the next generation of AI applications by unifying the fragmented AI agents ecosystem with a single drop-in API endpoint. We host and manage your MCP servers, allowing users…

Location: San Francisco, CA
Company size: 2–10
Posted: 3d ago
Via: Yc

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Design Engineer · Dedalus Labs

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Job title: Design Engineer
Job location: San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dedalus-labs/jobs/s0MNFH1-design-engineer
Job description: **Please submit your application at: [https://www.dedaluslabs.ai/careers](https://www.dedaluslabs.ai/careers)** _Only candidates who filled out our form above will be considered._ ## Mission Dedalus Labs is an AI research neolab building infrastructure for AI agents. We are looking for a design engineer who wants to build the UI for the platform that will power the AI agents of the future. ## You might be a fit if you * Are obsessive about user experience. * Measure thrice, cut once. * Sweat the small details. * Believe great products are built from millions of tiny perfected parts. * Live at the bleeding edge of web and browser technology. * Have strong opinions about frameworks, languages, rendering models, and where the web is going. * Think the internet should be faster. * Have shipped amazing work. * Understand why a spring beats a tween. * Care about optimal bundling strategies. * View software engineering as simply moving typed data around. * Believe actions speak louder than words. * Are high agency and fiercely independent. * Say how things ought to be built, then build them. * Are a competitive teammate with a heart of gold. * Are hungry to learn, improve, and reflect deeply on feedback. * Go above and beyond in everything you do. ## What we look for * Fluency with AI coding tools. * Deep expertise in React and TypeScript. * Experience with web frameworks like Next.js, Vite, or Remix. * Wizardry with styling libraries like Tailwind CSS. * Strong instincts in responsive design and motioning patterns. * Performance-pilled engineers with exceptional core web vitals instincts. * Good judgment around RSC, streaming, and loading states. * Responsive, accessible work. * Modern CSS you are a little smug about. ## Nice-to-have * Experience with Motion, GSAP, View Transitions, WebGL, Three.js, React Three Fiber, or similar tools. * High-performance tooling, e.g. Vite+, the `oxc` stack, etc. * Canvas, shaders, GLSL, or WebGPU. * Open-source contributions we can look at. * Tools or techniques we have not heard of yet. * Experience writing APIs. * Comfort with Supabase or a similar database. * Strong knowledge of types. * Interest in category theory. ## Taste You know what good looks like. ## Logistics * In person in San Francisco. * Remote considered case by case for exceptional applicants. * We sponsor visas. ## Tips The first thing we look at is your GitHub and your personal website. Show us the best version of yourself!

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Where this role is based

San Francisco, CA

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Dedalus Labs headquarters

San Francisco, CA

Company size

2–10 employees

Founded

2025

Total raised

$11,500,000

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Funding rounds

Seed$11MOct 15, 2025
Pre Seed$500KSep 9, 2025

Investors

Y Combinator

Industries

Software Companies Software As A Service Companies