Design Engineer Jobs in San Francisco

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly | SF | NYC

Anthropic's design engineering team is one of the few that genuinely treats the marketing site as a craft surface, not a CMS dump. This role sits at the intersection of brand and product engineering — shipping the public-facing storytelling for Claude. A rare combination of polish and substance.

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA

Anthropic is building the most capable AI systems in the world, and this design engineer role shapes how those systems present themselves on the web. Working at the frontier of AI with a team that takes craft seriously — one of the most exciting design engineering roles available right now.

Anthropic · San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY

Design Engineering for AI Capability Development at Anthropic's Education Labs hits the sweet spot of technical craft and meaningful impact. Building educational experiences around AI capabilities requires both deep technical understanding and human-centered design thinking—a rare combination that could shape how society learns about AI.

OpenAI · San Francisco, CA

A rare hybrid that sits between design, hardware, and live experience — engineering the audiovisual systems that shape how OpenAI shows up in its rooms and events. For a designer who thinks in signal flow and physical space, working at the company defining the AI era, this is unusually tactile and high-stakes.

Stripe · New York, Remote in United States, Seattle, Toronto, South San Francisco HQ, Remote in Canada

Stripe's Presence team works on the foundational pieces that make every other Stripe product feel cohesive and polished. This is where someone gets to define interaction patterns and visual language that millions of businesses depend on — the kind of systems thinking that career-defining portfolios are made of.

Cursor · SF / NY

Design Engineer at Cursor is one of the most coveted roles in the industry right now. This is where design meets code in a product used by millions of developers daily. The bar is extraordinarily high — expect to ship polished, interactive UI that defines the category.

Superhuman · Hub - San Francisco

Design engineering is where Superhuman's obsession with speed and polish actually gets shipped, blending pixel-level craft with real implementation. For someone who lives in that overlap of design and code, this is a dream seat on the Go product.

Ramp · New York / San Francisco / Remote

Ramp is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies and their product is beautifully designed. A design engineer here works on financial tools used by 50,000+ companies — the intersection of craft and complex data at serious scale.

Superhuman · San Francisco

Design engineer roles with this kind of comp ($232K–$348K) are rare, and Go is the new combined-product surface that Superhuman is staking its future on. Get to ship at the intersection of taste, speed, and a product that ships weekly to people who care about every pixel of their inbox.

Perplexity · San Francisco

Lead Design Engineer for Perplexity's growth and marketing — building the pages and experiences that turn curious visitors into daily users. $250K-$405K comp at one of the hottest AI companies.

Mercury · San Francisco, CA / Remote

Mercury has earned a reputation as one of the most design-driven companies in fintech, and a design engineer on the top-of-funnel team gets to shape the polished marketing surfaces that set that tone. A strong fit for someone who codes their own designs and sweats motion and detail.

Ramp · New York / San Francisco / Remote

Design Engineer on Ramp's design systems team — building the component library that powers one of fintech's fastest-growing products. Craft-obsessed role where your work ships to thousands of finance teams.

Oura · San Francisco, CA

A design engineering role at Oura that bridges the gap between ID vision and manufacturing reality. For designers who love the craft of making physical products — miniaturizing sensors into something beautiful enough to be jewelry is a fascinating design challenge.

Eight Sleep · San Francisco

A hybrid design-engineering role at Eight Sleep working on their sleep tech hardware. The intersection of industrial design and software at a fast-growing health tech company with genuine product innovation. Perfect for someone who thinks in both pixels and prototypes.

Oura · San Francisco (Hybrid)

Staff-level design engineering at Oura — bridging industrial design and manufacturing for a health wearable worn 24/7. Rare hardware design engineering role at a premium consumer product company.

Firecrawl · San Francisco, CA

Firecrawl is the web scraping tool that developers actually love, and this design engineer role means building the interfaces that make complex data extraction feel effortless. A rare chance to do craft-level frontend work at a developer tools company with serious traction.

Finta · San Francisco

A founding design engineer role is as high-impact as it gets — this person will set the design and engineering culture for the entire product. Finta sits in fintech, and founding-level craft roles in finance are rare finds.

Interaction · San Francisco Bay Area

Interaction is building next-generation spatial computing interfaces, and this design engineer role is right at the frontier of how humans will interact with AI and 3D environments. A small team where design engineering isn't just a title — it's the entire product philosophy.

Prime Intellect · San Francisco / Remote

Design engineer at Prime Intellect, building the interface for decentralized AI training. Small team tackling hard infrastructure problems — the design work here is about making distributed computing accessible.

Fiddle · San Francisco

Supply chain planning isn't glamorous, but Fiddle is trying to bring thoughtful product design to an industry that desperately needs it. A design engineer here gets to make complex data feel approachable.