Founding Design Engineer

About the role

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