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Design Engineer

Paradigm

Paradigm

Software Engineering, Design
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 150k-250k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 30, 2025

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Engineering

Compensation

  • $150K – $250K • Offers Equity

This salary range does not encompass the full spectrum of benefits such as generous equity grants, health insurance, 401k matching, provided meals, team offsites, and potential signing or relocation bonuses.

We’re looking for experienced full stack design engineers who thrive in fast-moving startups, and are excited to reimagine UX for an AI native workspace.

Qualifications

  • Willingness to work in-person in San Francisco

  • Experience building and designing magical user experiences

  • Obsessively product-minded

  • Ability to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments

  • Insatiably curious and learns quickly

  • History of superlative achievement

  • Experience building production web apps at scale using TypeScript, NextJS , React, JavaScript, CSS, web animation/motion, and other web technologies

Responsibilities

  • Design performant, beautiful, and usable interfaces that users love

  • Build in a full stack capacity with a focus on frontend

  • Plan and deploy any necessary front end infrastructure

  • Talk to users, track metrics, and iterate quickly

  • Define the user experience for spreadsheet-based agents

  • Shape product vision and roadmap

About Paradigm

Paradigm is a reimagined workspace with AI at its core. Paradigm is based in San Francisco and is backed by Y Combinator and the best builder/operators out there including cofounders of Ramp, Dropbox, Intercom, Langchain, Behance, Posthog, and more.

Our team is extremely small and talent-dense. We are serial builders who have worked and studied at Google, MIT, Microsoft (Excel Team), Penn, SIG, Stripe, Scale AI, and more.

As agents become more and more powerful, accessible large scale agent-orchestration becomes the biggest opportunity.

Compensation Range: $150K - $250K