[Hiring] Senior Design Engineer @Meadow

Role Description

As a Design Engineer at Meadow, you'll sit at the intersection of Product Design and Front-End Engineering to conceptualize and ship product that powers the student financial experience.

Design at Meadow is AI-first and builder-led. We're looking for a Design Engineer who is excited to:

• Use AI as a core part of how they design — prototyping early, testing with real customers, and staying involved through launch and iteration.
• Design for AI — building products that assume the system can understand context, take initiative, and collaborate with the user.

What You'll Do:

• Own Product Work End-to-End: You'll work in lockstep with Product and Engineering to define problems, explore solution spaces, validate concepts, and ship products.
• Prototype Using AI Tools: You'll use Cursor, Claude, and/or other AI tools to build and iterate on flows and interactions — then partner with Engineering to turn them into production-ready designs or pick up backend APIs and design bits of the frontend on top.
• Build Meadow's Design Engineering & Product Design Practice: As our first Design Engineer, you'll help us think through how the whole team can best ship an accessible, beautiful, and usable frontend.

Qualifications

• 4+ Years of Experience Across Product Design and Front-End Engineering
• Fluency in React, TypeScript or JavaScript, Semantic HTML, Modern CSS
• Active Use of AI Tools in Your Design Workflow (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex)
• Proven Success Owning Projects from Problem Definition → Launch & Iteration
• Proven Success Communicating & Collaborating with Engineering and Product
• Portfolio Showcasing High Visual and Interaction Craft

Requirements

• Experience at an Early Stage Startup
• Comfortable pointing out issues in our frontend UI and being proactive in how you'd fix them — considering things like accessibility, form validation, and other best practices.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Equity
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (with HSA & FSA Plans Available)
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 1-2 Onsites Per Year
• Membership in an Ambitious, Kind, No-Drama Team