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Searchability®

Principal Product Designer

Searchability®, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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AI Talent Acquisition Lead | Founding Product Designer Base pay range: $220,000.00/yr – $280,000.00/yr

We are an advanced AI research and product organization developing transformative tools for hardware and chip design. Our mission is to reinvent how complex hardware is created. We are hiring a Founding Product Designer to define the visual, interaction, and product foundation of our core AI‑native developer platform.

Responsibilities You will lead the end‑to‑end design of a next‑generation AI developer platform built for hardware and chip engineers. This includes architecting interaction models, visual systems, and polished production UI for data‑dense, tool‑heavy workflows. You’ll translate complex AI behavior, agent reasoning, and engineering logic into elegant, intuitive experiences, set the design language and creative direction for the entire product, and work shoulder‑to‑shoulder with engineering and ML teams to shape the future of hardware tool‑making.

Qualifications

4+ years designing end‑to‑end experiences for technical or developer‑facing products

Portfolio demonstrating systems thinking, exceptional visual craft, and strong product intuition

Expertise in Figma (or similar) for complex workflows and prototyping

Strong grasp of UX for data‑dense tools, IDE‑like environments, or productivity platforms

Ability to translate abstract AI capabilities into concrete interaction patterns

High‑caliber visual and typographic skills, with attention to aesthetic detail

Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers in an early‑stage environment

Nice to Have

Experience designing AI‑powered tools, agent interfaces, or developer workflows

Demonstrated ability to implement designs directly (design‑engineer profile)

Background in early‑stage, design‑centric, or deep‑tech startups

Interest in chip design, hardware tools, or technical creative software

Contact To apply, please either apply online or email

james.roberts@searchability.com . By applying for this role you give express consent for us to process and submit your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only.

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