Staff Design Engineer, AI Product

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📋 Description

• Build functional prototypes and product experiments directly in the Thunderbolt codebase
• Translate ambiguous product ideas, user workflows, partner feedback, and enterprise needs into clear, usable product experiences
• Define interaction patterns for AI-powered chat, search, research, workflow automation, knowledge retrieval, and enterprise administration
• Use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate prototyping and implementation while maintaining quality, usability, security, accessibility, and maintainability
• Partner with product, design, engineering, and enterprise-facing teams to explore, validate, and refine product direction
• Contribute production-quality front-end code where appropriate
• Determine whether prototypes should be discarded, refined, generalized, or productionized
• Improve the usability, accessibility, consistency, and polish of the Thunderbolt user experience
• Develop reusable components, interface patterns, or design-system elements
• Bring a user-centered perspective to technical and product discussions involving AI behavior, trust, transparency, permissions, and workflow clarity
• Consider enterprise needs including data sensitivity, user control, administrative visibility, auditability, and security expectations
• Contribute to a product culture valuing experimentation, maintainability, responsible AI use, and thoughtful user experience

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in design engineering, front-end engineering, UX engineering, product design with strong technical implementation experience, or a closely related role
• Demonstrated leadership and impact beyond individual deliverables
• Strong front-end engineering skills with modern JavaScript or TypeScript and component-based frameworks
• Experience building prototypes or production features directly in an application codebase
• Strong product and interaction design judgment, including usability, accessibility, information architecture, workflow design, and product polish
• Experience designing, prototyping, or building AI-enabled product experiences such as chat, search, research tools, agents, automation, knowledge interfaces, or workflow tools
• Experience translating ambiguous product concepts into usable workflows, prototypes, and shipped product experiences
• Experience providing technical or product leadership through mentoring, cross-functional coordination, reusable patterns, project ownership, or influence beyond individual deliverables
• Practical awareness of AI, privacy, security, and regulatory considerations, including transparency, user control, permissions, data handling, and trust
• Familiarity with frameworks such as the EU AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, HIPAA, or comparable requirements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Portfolio, case studies, shipped work, or examples demonstrating design-to-code execution, interactive prototypes, or product experience improvements
• Bonus: experience with enterprise software, developer tools, productivity tools, collaboration tools, self-hosted software, design systems, component libraries, user research, usability testing, open-source, or highly collaborative engineering environments
• Applicants must reside in and have permanent work authorization for the specified country locations; visa sponsorship is not provided

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work & schedule flexibility
• Company-provided laptop
• Annual bonus program
• Monthly remote work stipend
• Annual professional development stipend
• Access to [REDACTED] learning platform
• Industry conferences
• Company all-hands and team gatherings
• 24 days PTO per year (prorated)
• Your birthday
• Year-end company shutdown
• 9 wellbeing days
• Public holidays
• Other paid leave
• Quarterly wellbeing stipend for personal / family activities
• 401(k) / RRSP contributions
• Health, dental, & vision insurance
• Disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Paid parental leave
• Paid sick days

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