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Founding Design Engineer

Paradev (formerly Superset), San Francisco, California

Posted pay

$175K–$225K

a year

Location: San Francisco, California
Work type: Not given
Level: Not given
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
React
Figma
Posted: Sep 13, 2026
Last check: 2 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

As agents take on more of the coding, how should people direct the work, understand what’s happening, and decide what ships? We’re looking for a founding design engineer to help define that experience.

You’ll partner closely with our CPO to shape the product, owning design and frontend implementation from early exploration through production in React and TypeScript. You’ll also define how Superset presents itself to the world through our brand and website.

What you will do

Design and build the workflows engineers use to coordinate agents, understand their progress, step in when needed, and review their work.
Own our visual direction across the product, website, and launch pages.
Prototype quickly, then refine typography, motion, keyboard interactions, and accessibility.
Talk directly with users, use feedback and product data to guide decisions, and improve the experience after it ships.
Build design systems, reusable components, and interaction patterns that help the team and coding agents ship consistent interfaces.

In your first 90 days, you’ll establish our visual direction, launch a new homepage, and ship a meaningful improvement to the product experience.

What you need

You’ve shipped polished interfaces and can articulate design decisions and process.
You bring strong visual and interaction craft and have made technical or data-rich products understandable without removing the control advanced users need.
You have strong visual taste and can move between Figma and working prototypes built with coding agents.
You can build and debug production UI with React, TypeScript, CSS, and Tailwind.
You use coding agents daily and can work independently.
You can work in person in San Francisco five days a week.

Nice to have

Have experience with dev tools, chat applications, collaborative/multiplayer design tools
Have shipped AI or agent experiences, especially workflows that move between human approval and autonomous action.
Have an engineering background or experience building agent-facing interfaces

Pay and benefits

$175k–$225k base plus 1.0%–1.5% equity.

We offer medical and dental coverage, a Guideline 401(k), unlimited time off, a $5k desk stipend, and meals in the office.

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Share your portfolio and a shipped project you’re proud of. Describe your contribution, design decisions, and what you learned. Include a live demo and GitHub, repo, or PR links where available.

About Paradev (formerly Superset)

About Superset

Superset is building self-improving software. It starts with giving engineers the best tools that adapt to their needs over time. Today, tens of thousands of engineers run Superset as their primary IDE, at companies like Wix, DoorDash, and Netflix.

We're building a flat and talent-dense team, and we're looking for people who have crazy ideas and are crazy enough to ship them. If you want to build a product you love to use, come build it with us.

About us

We’re a small team founded by three former YC CTOs, backed by $11.5 million from some of the best investors in the Valley. We built Superset in Superset, so we use what we ship every day. We’re source-available, so your work will be public and used by a community of engineers.

We believe design will play a defining role in how people build software with agents. You’ll work closely with our CPO and founders, with the ownership to challenge assumptions, shape the product, and take ideas into production.

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This base pay is near the median for software engineering jobs in the Bay Area with no level in the job title.

Median: $197K a year
Other jobs in the group: 2,433

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