# Design Engineer

**Company:** [Confido](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/confido)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Salary:** $150k – $180k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Product Design, Front-End Engineering, B2B SaaS, Prototyping, Cursor, Claude Code, Design Systems, Interaction Design, Visual Design, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-08-26

> Design and build polished experiences for a complex CPG operations platform, partnering closely with product, engineering, and customers. The role requires 3–5 years spanning product design and front-end engineering, strong product thinking, and comfort with AI-assisted development tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Shape the strategic direction of product and feature roadmaps.
- Build working prototypes, test them with customers, and use feedback to refine features.
- Partner with engineering and product to define, prototype, and ship product experiences.
- Make complex operator tools feel effortless through thoughtful interaction and visual design.
- Refine validated design patterns directly in code and contribute to the design system.
- Ship high-quality work under real-world constraints.

## Requirements
- 3–5 years of experience spanning product design and front-end engineering, ideally in B2B SaaS, enterprise tools, or complex workflow products.
- Portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, polished craft, and the ability to simplify complex problems.
- Experience taking large, ambiguous projects from concept through launch.
- Active experience with Cursor and Claude Code, with clear opinions on producing high-quality output.
- Strong visual design skills, including layout, motion, affordances, and visual polish.
- Strong direct communication and influence through quality of thinking.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience shipping opinionated work supported by taste and data.
- Practical use of AI tools in daily workflows.
- Interest in defining interaction patterns for people working alongside AI agents.
- Comfort treating ambiguity as an opportunity.
- Awareness of current AI research and tools.
- Experience designing for financial, enterprise, or other complex systems.
- Experience in high-growth startups.

## Compensation and Benefits
- $150,000–$180,000 annual salary.
- Equity.
- Fully paid employee health coverage through Aetna.
- Dental and vision coverage through Guardian.
- Fertility and family-forming support.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO and regular four-day holiday weekends.
- 401(k) through Vestwell.
- Paid relocation support to New York City.
- Equipped workspace, including laptop, monitor, keyboard, and a $200 setup stipend.
- Catered lunches, team dinners, coffee, snacks, and team perks.

## Similar jobs

- [Product Designer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/8782eae4-800a-4b64-9b00-e5a2ed52678a) - Bland AI - San Francisco, CA - $150k – $200k/yr
- [Design Engineer - Member of Technical Staff](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/1b4a44e7-2d8f-4393-9558-a338e40dd87d) - AI Digest - Remote - $150k – $350k/yr
- [Product Designer II, Design Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/51b49488-3a2a-484f-a9a2-a5518739fd47) - Coinbase - Remote - $145k – $170k/yr
- [AI Product Designer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f523d598-2ec9-4144-9e20-9fe7901df8dc) - Onebrief - Remote - $160k – $230k/yr
- [Agent Experience Designer](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/90cfb1e2-bf15-41ad-9b7c-79189d5667a1) - Decagon - San Francisco, CA - $160k – $200k/yr

**Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fd7056bd-e5ee-43a1-957b-01b6280dc0db
**Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/fd7056bd-e5ee-43a1-957b-01b6280dc0db