Searchability is hiring: Principal Product Designer (San Francisco) in San Franc

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 AInative developer platform.

Responsibilities

You will lead the endtoend design of a nextgeneration AI developer platform built for hardware and chip engineers. This includes architecting interaction models, visual systems, and polished production UI for datadense, toolheavy workflows. Youll 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 shouldertoshoulder with engineering and ML teams to shape the future of hardware toolmaking.

Qualifications

• 4+ years designing endtoend experiences for technical or developerfacing 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 datadense tools, IDElike environments, or productivity platforms
• Ability to translate abstract AI capabilities into concrete interaction patterns
• Highcaliber visual and typographic skills, with attention to aesthetic detail
• Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers in an earlystage environment

Nice to Have

• Experience designing AIpowered tools, agent interfaces, or developer workflows
• Demonstrated ability to implement designs directly (designengineer profile)
• Background in earlystage, designcentric, or deeptech 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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