Senior Design Engineer, AI Platforms

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About the role

  • Senior Design Engineer building AI-native interfaces and internal tools for Chess.com, a global platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

Responsibilities

  • Design compelling, clear UI/UX and produce high-quality mocks
  • Turn design mocks into pixel-perfect, production-ready frontends using modern web technologies
  • Improve existing interfaces through better layout, interaction quality, motion, and design consistency
  • Work closely with engineers, partners, and stakeholders
  • Support feature design and implementation end to end
  • Rapidly prototype and vibe code to explore ideas, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
  • Contribute to design systems, component libraries, and frontend patterns
  • Own and evolve components, tokens, and patterns in the design system
  • Use Cursor and Claude to build AI-first technologies
  • Prototype ideas and ship production polish end to end
  • Design interface layers for AI-native workflows, including streaming, long-running agent runs, and tool-calling surfaces
  • Write substantial amounts of code
  • Perform code reviews

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience prompting and building AI-native development tools such as Claude Code and Cursor as part of a daily workflow
  • Strong eye for polish and defensible, articulate taste in typography, spacing, layout, micro-interactions, transitions, and information density
  • Strong practical skills in modern web technologies, including TypeScript, Vue, React, or equivalent
  • Real experience building and owning a design system in code
  • Contributions to open source UI libraries or design resources
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills in a fully distributed team
  • Sense of ownership and responsibility
  • Strong UX and visual design skills with proven taste and craftsmanship
  • Ability to move between design tools such as Figma and frontend code
  • Background in internal tools, admin dashboards, or developer-facing products
  • Instincts for prompt engineering and LLM integration
  • Understanding of how model latency, streaming, uncertainty, and failure modes should surface in UI
  • Experience building AI-native interface patterns, including streaming output, agentic or long-running tasks, or tool-calling surfaces
  • Comfort designing or consuming APIs for front-end applications, with clean contracts, performance, and reliability at the boundary
  • Ability to work with at least 3 hours' overlap with the Eastern Time Zone

Benefits

  • Fully remote work from anywhere
  • Full-time opportunity

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

Open SourceReactTypeScriptVue.js

Location requirements

RemoteWorldwide

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