Design Engineer

• We’re looking for a Designer with strong visual taste to help drive rich, developer-friendly experiences across web and brand
• Designers at Exa have broad creative license, and the freedom to create and lead new initiatives based on your best product judgement
• Lead Exa’s product design across all platforms and touch points
• Explore visual designs in Figma or Claude/Codex/Cursor and translate them into web-native experiences
• Iterate on the future of agent-native experiences: how does this new wave of autonomous agents change the way that people discover, integrate, and build with our product?
• Identify and pursue new areas of product growth; create and iterate on product flows and high-fidelity visuals
• Example projects:
• Work with front-end engineering to develop the flow, layout, and features of our API playground
• Design novel onboarding, documentation, and debugging experiences that are seamless with coding agent workflows

Preferred experience

• We expect a broad set of skills and the ability to create high-quality designs, interactions, and prototypes
• If you are a versatile designer who enjoys rapidly iterating on a variety of projects, this might be the right role for you
• Experience using coding agents to ship projects and iterate on designs
• Strong curiosity for the latest tools: coding agents, design libraries, shaders
• Proficiency in design tools like Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Expertise in UX/UI principles for complex technical products
• A strong perspective and good judgement. 3+ years of experience, with ideally at least 1-2 years of in-house design experience
• You thrive in high velocity, high growth, scrappy startup environments