Design Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and build interfaces across HUD’s platform and marketplace from early concepts through shipped product.
• Make agent runs, evaluation results, reward signals, and quality feedback understandable and actionable.
• Collaborate with research and engineering to turn complex reinforcement-learning and evaluation workflows into useful tools.
• Talk with users, observe their challenges, and improve the product based on feedback.
• Develop reusable interaction patterns while maintaining high standards for usability, visual quality, and implementation.

Requirements

• Strong product and interaction design judgment, especially for complex tools or workflows.
• Front-end engineering skills and the ability to turn designs into working product interfaces.
• A record of shipping products, learning from users, and improving what was built.
• Ability to understand technical concepts and present them clearly to users.
• Good judgment about when to ship quickly and when an experience needs more care.
• Clear communication and comfort working closely with engineers, researchers, and users.
• Preferred experience includes developer tools, data-rich products, research software, AI agents, evaluations, reinforcement learning, training data, reusable interface patterns, or independent work at an early-stage company.

Benefits

• Full-time employment with offices in San Francisco and Singapore, plus remote work for candidates able to overlap 70–80% with either time zone.
• Support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.
• Two technical interviews followed by a 2–3 day work trial; applications are rolling.
• 100% covered medical, dental, and vision insurance for US and Singapore employees.
• Lunch and dinner for in-office employees.
• Company-wide holiday break from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day in addition to PTO and paid holidays.
• 401(k) with a 4% match.
• Equinox membership and commuter benefits for US employees, and a health/wellness stipend for Singapore employees.
• Access to ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI tools, plus an annual travel budget to visit either office.