At Ocular AI, we’re passionate about blurring the lines between design and engineering, with an obsessive focus on craftsmanship. We believe ideation, design, and implementation should be seamlessly intertwined to create exceptional user experiences and products that delight. We draw a TON of inspiration from design-focused teams such as Vercel, Linear, Resend.
We’re seeking an experienced Design Engineer (designer who codes or engineer who designs) with a refined aesthetic to help transform our website, product, and brand. In this role, you’ll take full creative ownership, using your broad design skills and technical expertise to craft high-quality interactions, prototypes, and experiences. Code, like Figma, is a tool in your arsenal to solve design challenges and bring bold ideas to life.
This is a high-agency, high-impact role in an early-stage startup, reporting directly to the founders. You’ll have the freedom to experiment, lead design-driven projects, and shape the future of our brand and products.
If you’re someone who thrives in ambiguous environments, loves experimenting, and is excited by the fusion of creativity and development, this is the perfect opportunity to make a meaningful impact.
1. Design-Oriented Thinking
2. Raw, Hardcore Intelligence
3. Founder Mentality
4. Customer Obsession
5. Humble and Collaborative
Read more about the 10 traits we look for here.
Ocular AI is the data annotation engine for Generative AI, Computer Vision, and Enterprise AI models.
We help you transform unstructured, multi-modal data into golden datasets to power generative AI, frontier models, and computer vision.
Ocular Foundry is the most intuitive, data-centric, and fastest platform that lets you label, annotate, version, and deploy your data for training models. It also orchestrates your annotation jobs, improving collaboration with members and annotators.
With Ocular Bolt, shift from humans in the loop to experts in the loop to supercharge your data labeling and annotation projects. Our global expert workforce ensures fast, accurate results—no matter the scale or complexity of your data.
Companies spend huge amounts on training data, but Foundry and Bolt are AI-native tools that lower costs, reduce manual effort, and accelerate high-quality data collection. We’re replacing outdated, clunky, and expensive data software!
Member of Technical Staff, Founding Backend Engineer
Member of Technical Staff, Founding Frontend Engineer
Founding Enterprise Account Executive
Founding Sales Development Representative (SDR)
Member of Technical Staff, Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Salary
$130,000 - $200,000
Equity
0.3% - 1%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Experience
3+ years
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.