Designer

The Americas (North, Central, South), Remote. Posted 13 months ago

The role

A Product Design Engineer will help shape a new programming environment. You will work closely with engineers to prototype ideas and implement parts of the interface in the product.

What you will do

Work closely with engineers
Prototype ideas directly in the product
Implement parts of the interface
Work on collaborative programming workflows
Work on interaction models for AI agents
Work on navigating and understanding large codebases
Work on keyboard-driven workflows and command systems
Work on interfaces for Git, debugging, and code exploration
Work on Zed's design system and interaction patterns

Required qualifications

Strong product design experience
Care deeply about interaction design
Enjoy working on technical products
Prototype ideas in code
Enjoy operating on the bleeding edge, work well with ambiguity, and ship
Excited to learn some Rust and get hands dirty creating interfaces in GPUI

Nice to have

Worked on developer tools or IDEs
Worked on code editors or programming environments
Worked on technical productivity software
Worked on AI-assisted tools or developer platforms
Worked on complex productivity products

About the company

Zed is open source and built in public by the team behind Atom and Tree-sitter. The company is building a new kind of programming environment.