Design Engineer

The role

You will prototype and implement novel user experiences at the intersection of AI video, world models, and generative media. You will design agentic tools and interfaces to help researchers and creatives interact with AI systems.

What you will do

• Prototype and implement novel user experiences at the intersection of AI video, world models, and emerging generative media
• Design and build agentic tools and interfaces that allow researchers and creatives to interact with and direct AI systems in real time
• Explore new application areas for AI video and general world models
• Stretch the limits of front-end engineering to broaden what is possible in research and experimentation contexts
• Create internal tools and frameworks used across design and engineering teams at Runway Labs
• Work alongside researchers, engineers, and product designers to shape how we think about the future of AI-driven creativity

Required qualifications

• Genuine curiosity about AI video, world models, agentic engineering and generative media
• Intuition for how to design meaningful interactions with these systems
• Experience designing flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UIs for web and agentic products
• Experience building agentic tools or interfaces
• Strong understanding of visual and interaction design
• Strong understanding of usability testing
• Comfort working in ambiguous, research oriented environments

About the company

Runway is building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. The team consists of creative, open minded, caring and ambitious people determined to change the world.