Principal Product Designer Job at Searchability® in San Francisco

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.