Design Engineer

The role

You will own features end to end by finding problems in real usage, designing flows directly in code, and connecting them to APIs. You will work on the HUD Platform and DataVendor products using a stack including Next.js, React, and TypeScript.

What you will do

• Ship features to production in Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, Motion, TanStack Query, Zustand, Clerk, Bun, and a Python/FastAPI backend
• Design in code by building and refining product UI in the browser
• Learn from real usage by watching PostHog session replays and talking to users
• Work across the API boundary with backend engineers to shape data and make Python service changes
• Extend each product's design system and maintain high standards for motion, responsiveness, accessibility and copy

Required qualifications

• Have shipped and maintained a product that real people use
• Write production React and TypeScript
• Can read, debug and review code, including code written by AI tools
• Have strong interaction and visual judgment for complex, data-heavy tools
• Are comfortable across the stack to integrate REST APIs, reason about data models, and make modest backend changes
• Use AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day
• Explain decisions clearly to engineers, product owners and founders on fast-paced live calls

Nice to have

• built developer tools, marketplaces or data-heavy products
• worked with AI agents, evaluations or training data
• built component libraries or design systems in code
• worked at an early-stage startup

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision (US and Singapore employees)
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees
• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays
• 401k with a 4% match
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits (US employees)
• health/wellness stipend (Singapore employees)
• Unlimited access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.
• Annual travel budget to visit either office

Before you apply

• Send a portfolio or links to shipped work
• Process includes 2 technical interviews and a paid three-day remote work trial

About the company

HUD's mission is to build reliable, fair and open infrastructure for AI data. Their marketplace and platform are used by startups, Fortune 500 companies and frontier labs.