Substrate builds financial infrastructure to grow industrial GDP.
We're hiring a Design Engineering Intern to help make Substrate's products look and feel insanely great. You'll work at the intersection of design, product, copywriting, and full-stack engineering, shipping 0→1 experiences that power machine shops, farms, factories, construction contractors, and more.
Substrate engineering interns have immense ownership to lead full-stack product cycles end-to-end, from customer discovery to production deployment. You'll get to occasionally travel with the founder to factory floors, meet Main Street manufacturers and Wall Street lenders face-to-face, and build exactly what the field demands.
Given the design complexity of our product and the high degree of ownership we trust interns with, we've found engineers typically take 6-8 weeks to fully onboard and lead their own projects. Therefore, we strongly prefer candidates who can commit to an 8-month+ internship. We occasionally make exceptions for those who are truly exceptional.
Why consider Substrate amidst your sea of options:You believe in objective good and beauty, and you want to bring them to an antiquated, predatory industry.
You believe not all technology is created equal. You don’t care about building another enterprise SaaS tool, you want to build tools that advance civilization.
You want to work with people who treat their work as craft, who violently reject “just good enough,” and you want to help build that culture.
Own the full arc: from customer pain → UI/UX design → prototype → shipped product
Design and build beautiful, simple interfaces on top of gnarly complexity and legacy systems
Write growth-optimized product copy that converts users across the product funnel
Spin up fast, high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes to pressure-test ideas before we build
Help build a product culture that harmonizes speed, taste, and customer obsession
You have serious taste in UI/UX, and you can point to interfaces you've designed that prove it
You're a great writer
You love reading about the history of design and artistic styles
You can spin up fast mockups and demos in Figma, Lovable, or similar feels like second nature
You live in design references like Mobbin and move fast with frontier AI design tools like Figr
growth.design is something you'd enjoy reading
You love LLMs and are the kind of person to max out on tokens
You resonate with our engineering philosophy
If you are interested, please apply via Dover AND email [email protected] with the following (your app won't be considered without these):
If you could have one person's career arc, who would it be and why?
What's an unpopular truth you believe in?
What's the most insanely great thing you've ever designed? Include a link or video so we can see!
Availability for a 30min call
Skills Required
- Demonstrated UI/UX design ability with a portfolio of designed interfaces
- Strong writing ability
- Ability to create fast mockups and working prototypes using Figma, Lovable, or similar tools
- Familiarity with design references such as Mobbin
- Experience or interest in frontier AI design tools such as Figr
- Interest in and familiarity with large language models
- Ability to commit to an internship of 8 months or longer
- Availability for a 30-minute call
What We Do
Substrate was founded to return the United States to dominance in semiconductor fabrication. We invent technology to extend Moore's Law while reducing costs of leading-edge fabs and the wafers they produce.
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