# Staff Design Engineer

**Company:** [Sfcompute](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sfcompute)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $300k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** React, Vue, svelte, solidjs, JavaScript, frontend architecture, Interaction Design, Motion Design, Performance Optimization, real-time data, animation
**Posted:** 2026-07-24

> Build high-fidelity, polished frontend interfaces with exceptional visual, interaction, and motion quality for a liquid GPU offtake marketplace. Requires strong design instincts paired with deep modern JS framework expertise, complex component shipping experience, and staff-level autonomy in a technically dense infrastructure product.

## Job Description

## What You Will Do
- Design and build the high-fidelity, polished interfaces in our product
- Raise the bar for frontend craft, interaction design, motion, visual detail, performance under real usage
- Partner closely with product and engineering to turn rough ideas into shippable, delightful experiences
- Make sound architectural decisions for frontend systems that scale with the product
- Mentor other engineers on design sensibility and frontend craft
- Grow into broader product ownership, understanding customer needs, business context, and shipping end-to-end

## Who You Are
- You have strong design instincts, but prefer to build rather than only spec
- You have strong opinions about product quality and can point to specific things you'd fix in products you use every day
- You've shipped genuinely complex frontend components — whether the complexity was technical (performance, real-time data, animation) or experiential (making something hard feel simple)
- You're energized by both the craft of building and by understanding why something matters to the business and its customers
- Deep expertise in a modern JS framework: React, Vue, Svelte, or SolidJS
- A track record of shipping interfaces with real visual and interaction craft — not just functional, but genuinely good
- Staff+ level ability to operate autonomously and make good judgment calls with limited direction

## Nice To Have
- Experience shipping products end-to-end to external customers, and understanding how that work mapped to business goals
- Startup or early-stage experience, where you had to wear a product-thinking hat as well as an engineering one
- Experience in developer tools, infrastructure, or technically dense product spaces

## Benefits
- Generous equity grant
- Competitive salary along with equity in the company
- Visa sponsorships
- 401(k) matching up to 4%
- Competitive medical, dental, vision insurance (100% premiums covered)
- Unlimited paid time off + 10+ observed holidays
- Parental leave
- Daily lunch covered
- Unlimited office book budget

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