Staff Design Engineer

The role

You will design and build high-fidelity, polished interfaces in the product. You will raise the bar for frontend craft, interaction design, and performance while partnering with product and engineering teams.

What you will do

• Design and build the high-fidelity, polished interfaces in our product
• Raise the bar for frontend craft, interaction design, motion, visual detail, performance under real usage
• Partner closely with product and engineering to turn rough ideas into shippable, delightful experiences
• Make sound architectural decisions for frontend systems that scale with the product
• Mentor other engineers on design sensibility and frontend craft
• Grow into broader product ownership, understanding customer needs, business context, and shipping end-to-end

Required qualifications

• Strong design instincts
• Strong opinions about product quality
• Shipped genuinely complex frontend components
• Deep expertise in a modern JS framework: React, Vue, Svelte, or SolidJS
• Track record of shipping interfaces with real visual and interaction craft
• Staff+ level ability to operate autonomously and make good judgment calls with limited direction

Nice to have

• Experience shipping products end-to-end to external customers, and understanding how that work mapped to business goals
• Startup or early-stage experience, where you had to wear a product-thinking hat as well as an engineering one
• Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or technically dense product spaces

Benefits

• Generous equity grant
• Competitive salary
• Visa sponsorships
• Retirement matching up to 4%
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and dependents
• Unlimited paid time off
• 10+ observed holidays
• Paid parental leave for biological, adoptive, and foster parents
• Daily lunch
• Unlimited office book budget

Before you apply

• We sponsor visas and work permits

About the company

San Francisco Compute builds data centers and supercomputers, then leases those machines on contracts that let customers sublease. They serve as a technical partner to build, operate, and lease supercomputers for financially motivated parties.