Founding Design Engineer

Helium is building Self-Improving Software : AI that automatically generates & tests new software experiences to lift revenue. We’re…

Talent-dense (8 people, 6 engineers, 75% ex-founders)

Well-funded ($6M from Google & Leaders from OpenAI)

Fast-growing (Serving tens of millions of AI experiences per day for top consumer companies).

AI has created a once-in-history opportunity, and we’re here to win, because of that…

🔴 We work hard — In-Office Monday–Friday + often push through weekends 🔴

What You’ll Do

• Own design across Helium’s entire AI Experience generation product, including…

• Design and implement end-to-end user flows including…

• Using Helium’s AI editor to generate new in-app experiences

• Running experiments and automatically analyzing results

• Receiving and critiquing auto-generated experiences

• Help engineers think through UX challenges and critique / uplevel design generally

• Build out a visual identity and a design system

• Work directly with the founders to help build out our team.

• Talk to customers every week about how to simplify and improve our product

• Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.

What We’re Looking For

• You should be a designer-who-codes (or an engineer with taste)

• 1-4+ years as a product designer, frontend engineer, or similar role combining design and implementation

• Deep expertise in modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, modern CSS)

• Excellent design taste and a keen eye for detail

• Track record of making complex user flows intuitive (Making “The simple simple and the complex possible”)

• Nice To Haves

• Experience designing interfaces for AI products or ML-powered features

• Experience optimizing frontend performance and reducing latency

• Experience with brand, visual design, or creating design systems.

• Founder experience

• Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit

• You’d like to spend weeks perfecting every experience

• You avoid Cursor or AI coding tools.

• You don’t want to talk to customers or figure out the end-to-end plan for features.

Requirements

• 🔴 Note 🔴

• This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco - we work from the office 6 days a week (Mon-Sat)

• You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting .

• We require US work authorization , but are open to O-1 visa sponsorship for truly exceptional candidates.

• Our stack:

• Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand

• AI (vercel) SDK

• Tailwind/Shadcn

• Supabase

• Clickhouse

• Golang/ Fly.io

• Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo, Android

• Requires Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science or similar fields.