# Founding Design Engineer

**Company:** [Dryft](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/dryft)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Frontend Engineering
**Skills:** React, TypeScript, Chakra Ui, Tanstack Router, React Query, FastAPI, Pydantic, Postgres, Pgvector, Dagster
**Posted:** 2025-11-05

> Builds intuitive UIs for AI agents in manufacturing operations, transforming complex industrial data into high-trust experiences. Fullstack engineer with frontend focus, strong product sense, and customer collaboration; onsite in SF.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work directly with CEO, CTO, and customers to build magical user interfaces for AI Agents.
- Transform dense industrial data and decision logic into transparent, high-trust experiences.

## Requirements
- Engineer turned designer, or vice versa, with strong understanding of easy-to-use interfaces.
- Shipped production features end-to-end; stronger in frontend but can handle backend.
- Strong product sense and enjoy working directly with customers.
- Obsess over design, pay attention to details, explore best-in-class products.

## Tech Stack
**Frontend (TypeScript):** React, Chakra UI v3, TanStack Router, TanStack Query, Vite  
**Backend (Python):** FastAPI with Pydantic v2, SQLModel, PostgreSQL with pgvector, dagster  
**AI:** Pydantic AI, Langfuse

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