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Founding Design Engineer

Twenty Labs, San Mateo (San Francisco Bay Area)

Posted pay

$150K–$300K

a year

Location: San Mateo (San Francisco Bay Area)
Work type: Onsite
Level: Not given
Skills in the job text: TypeScript
React
Next.js
Posted: Nov 4, 2025
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Software engineering

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The role

We're seeking an exceptional design engineer who combines world-class design taste with the ability to build. You will craft elegant, intuitive product experiences and also implement them yourself in modern TypeScript/React front-ends. You'll work closely with the founders to translate cutting-edge AI advances into beautiful, high-usage products for discerning finance users.

About Twenty Labs / compound

Twenty Labs is an applied research lab working on augmenting knowledge workers, starting with finance. The penetration of AI in finance is still limited and we want to be the company that delivers AGI to finance through our product, Compound (@getcompoundai ). Some product videos can be found on YouTube .

https://getcompound.ai/

https://x.com/getcompoundai

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Gk06k3JN0rkSBWiLsMx2g

You'll be joining a highly technical founding team, including leading researchers and engineers from Google DeepMind/Brain and Microsoft who pioneered research in language models, shipped GenAI products to billions in production, paired with domain expertise from top finance and consulting firms (Coatue, Bain, Y Combinator).

You, the ideal candidate

Have shipped beautiful, polished user interfaces in products used by millions of users
Own the craft end-to-end: research, prototypes, high-fidelity design, and production code
Are fluent in TypeScript, React, and modern front-end tooling (e.g., Tailwind, Next.js)
Design and implement responsive, accessible web UIs that work beautifully on mobile and desktop
Move quickly with users while maintaining a very high bar for interaction quality, performance, and accessibility
Use AI to augment your work, and hold AI to a high standard of quality

Pay and benefits

Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision insurance for you and dependents, including $0 premium plan with company HSA contribution
401(k) plan with 4% match
Catered daily team lunch
Urban downtown San Mateo office, 5-minute walk from Caltrain and free parking
Time off as you need it
Top-quality computers and ergonomic workspace
Corporate AI subscriptions as much as you need for work

About Twenty Labs

Our culture and how we operate

We seek out the 10% of people who account for 90% of productivity and strive to be a small and talent-dense team.
No formal performance reviews. If you're here, you're a high-performer.
Our organization is flat with no middle managers and you will work directly with the founders who all code.
No empire building – we operate as one team.
If you see something you can fix efficiently end-to-end, just do it.
We love being in-person at our San Mateo office 5-days a week for maximum bandwidth communication and enjoying delicious local food together.
We write blameless post-mortems (incident reports) for any service outages to document and constantly improve reliability.
We “Feel the AGI” and want to bring it to others to massively improve productivity.

Our culture and how we operate

We seek out the 10% of people who account for 90% of productivity and strive to be a small and talent-dense team.
No formal performance reviews. If you're here, you're a high-performer.
Our organization is flat with no middle managers and you will work directly with the founders who all code.
No empire building – we operate as one team.
If you see something you can fix efficiently end-to-end, just do it.
We love being in-person at our San Mateo office 5-days a week for maximum bandwidth communication and enjoying delicious local food together.
We write blameless post-mortems (incident reports) for any service outages to document and constantly improve reliability.
We “Feel the AGI” and want to bring it to others to massively improve productivity.

Read the job posting on the Twenty Labs site

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Median: $197K a year
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