Design Engineer

Department: Design

Location: HQ - NYC

Compensation: $200K – $400K • Offers Equity

Employment Type: FullTime

We’re looking for a design engineer to take ideas from rough sketches to production. You’ll play a key role in shaping entirely new interaction paradigms for understanding and controlling infrastructure. You’ll own the look, feel, and experience of Antimetal across our entire platform.

About Antimetal

Antimetal is building the future of infrastructure management. We're starting by creating a platform that investigates, resolves, and prevents issues—giving engineers their time back to focus on what they do best: building great products.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the design system across Figma and code (React, Tailwind), keeping it robust and scalable.

• Ship pixel‑perfect interfaces with CSS.

• Take ideas from rough sketches to production-ready by partnering with design and engineering.

• Raise the bar on front‑end architecture and best practices.

• Define new interaction patterns for AI‑driven tools.

What you bring:

• Experience working as a Design Engineer, frontend engineer with strong design skills, or designer with strong engineering skills

• Highly proficient in React, Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind, with a strong grasp of modern frontend architecture, state management patterns, and performance optimization.

• Strong visual and interaction instincts—you care deeply about detail, motion, and making interfaces feel precise, responsive, and intentional.

• A fast, flexible prototyper who is equally comfortable exploring ideas in Figma, code, or AI tools, depending on what gets you to signal fastest.

• Hands-on with CSS animation, transitions, and layout techniques—skilled at crafting interfaces that move and respond with clarity and intent.

• A strong portfolio showcasing high-quality front-end development work.

• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment. You are quick to iterate, test ideas, and push toward outcomes.

Bonus:

• GSAP

• R3F, Three.js, WebGL

• Infrastructure knowledge

Who you are:

• Identify as a builder

• Are excited to work in-person from our new and spacious office in New York

• Love working in a startup environment (experience in a startup or obsession with going zero-to-one)

• Enjoy working with people who are ambitious, caring, and think in systems

• Thrive in a fast-paced iterative environment where experimentation is essential

What we bring:

• Pay & ownership — Competitive salary with generous equity grants.

• Full coverage + retirement — Fully covered health, dental, and vision, plus retirement benefits.

• Unlimited PTO — Take the time you need to recharge.

• Dinner on late nights — Working late? Dinner is on us.

• Fitness stipend — Monthly support for your health and wellness.

• Tools of the trade — Any equipment you need to do your best work.

• Commute perks — Citi Bike + train benefits.

Interview process

1. Application Review – Send us your stuff, and a quick note on why you're excited.

2. Intro Chat: Share what you're looking for next and learn more about what we're building.

3. Founder Interview: Talk with our CTO Shreyas in more detail about the role

4. Product engineering exercise: You will have a set amount of time to develop rough prototypes to explore ideas based on a problem we define together.

5. Onsite: Come onsite and meet the team through a series of 1:1 interviews.

6. Decision – We’ll move fast.