Design Engineer

The role

You will design and build experiences for researchers to understand, run, and contribute to benchmarks. This includes internal tools and the public-facing platform.

What you will do

• Work on product design and frontend engineering.
• Develop complex product workflows, interaction and visual design, and frontend systems.
• Improve developer and user experience.
• Design and build the company website, including benchmark launches and product announcements.
• Translate technical ideas into clear, polished web experiences.
• Identify usability and design problems.
• Develop new interaction patterns.
• Design and implement features from idea through production.

Required qualifications

• Designed and shipped products, interfaces, or websites that people love
• Strong visual, interaction, and product design judgment
• Fluency with modern HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and React
• Ability to move fluidly between design and implementation
• Ability to identify meaningful product problems and independently take them from loosely defined ideas through production
• Experience designing and building polished marketing websites, landing pages, or launch experiences
• Ability to communicate complex technical products clearly through design
• Comfortable working through ambiguity, setting your own direction, and iterating quickly

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO policy
• Every lunch and dinner is paid for ($18K annual value)
• 100% premium covered on Blue Shield’s platinum health plan, and 50% premium coverage for dependents
• 100% coverage for top-tier Guardian dental and vision plans
• Ambitious Equity incentives
• 401(k) plan options
• Company-sponsored professional development
• Work visa sponsorship
• Team-wide science/engineering reading groups

Before you apply

• Send résumé and a portfolio showing work you personally designed and built
• Hiring process includes a 3-Day Paid Onsite Project

About the company

Latchbio builds benchmarks that test whether frontier AI can actually do computational biology. Pharma/biotech, Frontier AI, and solution providers rely on these benchmarks to evaluate and improve AI systems.