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Design Technologist

San Francisco, CA

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Seniority
Mid level
Stated salary
$150,000 – $275,000 per year
Country
US
Work mode
On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly
24 Sept 2026

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About Us

Imbue is a radically different AI company. We believe that data should belong to you, humans should come before technology, and everyone deserves to own a personal team of AI agents. We believe in a future of open agents that you can modify to do exactly what you want.

We’re building a suite of tools to make tech serve humans, and making it open source.

Some first projects include:

Sculptor : An interface for programmers to run coding agents in parallel and stay in flow

mngr : A command-line tool for managing agents

Vet : A standalone tool that catches AI coding mistakes and reviews full PRs

Offload : A tool that automatically distributes your tests to run in isolated sandboxes

Latchkey : A command-line tool to integrate local agents with third-party APIs

Darwinian Evolver : A near-universal optimizer for code and agents

And we’re just getting started. If you’re excited about building a future with open agents, say hi!

We're supported by investors like Nvidia, Simon Last (co-founder of Notion), and Eric Schmidt (former CEO of Google), with $200M raised at over $1B valuation.

Summary

In this role, you’ll help shape our products and design culture. We're still in the earlier stages of development, so you’ll have the ability to truly impact the product from a strategic design lens.

We are a close-knit, strong technical team focused on building beautiful and intuitive products. We believe intelligent AI systems have the potential to give people more freedom, dignity, and agency to do the things they love. As such, we seek to build in a human-centered way to reimagine our relationship with technology.

In this role, you’ll own the product user experience end-to-end, contributing to product strategy, running design sprints, and crafting a vision to ensure simple and elegant designs.

Example Projects

Collaborate often with engineers to design and ship high quality product improvements

Conduct user research and help synthesize user insights

Build prototypes while exploring new and creative user interfaces

Deliver and refine clear storytelling around product needs and opportunities

Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making about product direction

Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals

Collaborate with product team to iterate on feature ideas quickly

Build and refine our design system & component library to help deliver a cohesive product

You Are

A strong designer who has a high bar for their craft

Able break down complex problems and design simple, user focused solutions

Energized by understanding customer needs

A strategic thinker that has strong product sense and experience building 0-1

Able to iterate quickly on both high and low fidelity mock-ups and explore ideas quickly

Able to work independently without explicit directions

Compensation and Benefits

Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits

Health insurance fully covered for you and your dependents

Lunch provided daily to onsite employees

$250 lifestyle stipend per month

Generous budget for self-improvement: coaching, courses, conferences, etc

Actively co-create and participate in a positive, intentional team culture

Spend time learning, reading papers, and deeply understanding prior work

Frequent team events, dinners, off-sites, and hanging out

Compensation packages are highly variable based on a variety of factors. If your salary requirements fall outside of the stated range, we still encourage you to apply. The salary range for this role is $150,000–$275,000 cash (plus equity)

How to Apply

We review every application personally, so tell us why you're excited about this role and what draws you to what we're building. We care more about the quality of your thinking than the length of your resume.

Original posting on Imbue's site ↗

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