Design Engineer

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
100K-120K Annually
Junior
Artificial Intelligence
InstaLILY builds AI teammates for the physical goods economy.
The Role
Design and implement polished, production-ready front-end experiences and design systems in code. Build UI across chat, voice, copilots, and agentic workflows, improve tooling and prototyping, ensure accessibility, performance, and visual quality, and collaborate closely with design and engineering to turn prototypes into shipped products.
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About Us

InstaLILY AI builds vertical AI Teammates (InstaWorkers™)—autonomous, role-based AI workers that execute revenue-critical work end-to-end inside a company's existing systems. Coordinated by InstaBrain™, our shared company intelligence layer, InstaLILY transforms fragmented data, inboxes, ERPs, and CRMs into reliable execution.

What’s Design Engineering?

Design engineers bring “taste” into engineering. They ship high-craft UI while building the systems, tooling, and workflows that help teams move faster and build better products in an AI-native environment. At InstaLILY, design engineers own production UI quality, design systems as infrastructure, and prototyping workflows that turn emerging ideas into shipped experiences.

What You'll Be Doing

Shape AI-native product experiences

  • Design and build customer-facing experiences across chat, voice, copilots, and agentic workflows.
  • Turn concepts, prototypes, and product ideas into polished, production-ready interfaces.
  • Bring strong front-end craft to interaction design, responsiveness, and implementation detail.

Build design systems as infrastructure

  • Build and evolve a design system in code as shared product infrastructure, across core components, tokens, patterns, and documentation.
  • Help make the system machine-consumable, so both humans and AI-assisted tools can generate consistent interfaces from shared foundations.

Bring taste to what ships

  • Bring strong judgment to UI craft and implementation quality, making thoughtful decisions around interaction design, accessibility, performance, and maintainability.
  • Help ensure what ships feels clear, cohesive, and intentional, with the discernment to refine details, uphold standards, and know what elevates the product experience.

Improve tooling and team workflows

  • Build internal tools that support teams across engineering, design, and functions like sales, operations, marketing, and recruiting.
  • Evaluate and integrate modern AI tools, then turn those learnings into secure, repeatable workflows the broader team can build on.
Qualification
  • 1+ years of experience in front-end engineering, design engineering, or product design with code.
  • Strong foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Sharp eye for visual quality, interaction detail, and product craft.
  • Experience building with design systems, reusable UI, and modern prototyping workflows.
  • Interest in AI-native product experiences and how AI tools are changing the way products are built.
  • Strong collaboration skills across design and engineering.
  • Builder mindset: proactive, thoughtful, and excited to learn by making.
  • A portfolio that demonstrates strong UI craft, prototyping ability, and thoughtful implementation in code.
Compensation and Benefits
  • Salary Range : $100,000 - $120,000 per year, commensurate with experience
  • Equity : Generous stock options awards, and refreshers for top performers
  • Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, in-office Lunch reimbursement, Wellbeing Stipend, Generous Parental leave, PTO and 10 US Federal Holidays, and more!
Quality Over Quantity

To ensure a focused, high-quality hiring experience, we kindly ask candidates to limit their applications to 3 open requisitions at any given time. Applying strategically to roles that best align with your skills and career goals gives you the highest chance of standing out. Have you interviewed with us in the past 12 months? We encourage you to reach out directly to your previous interviewer rather than submitting a new application.

Instalily is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Skills Required

  • 1+ years of experience in front-end engineering, design engineering, or product design with code.
  • Strong foundation in React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
  • Sharp eye for visual quality, interaction detail, and product craft.
  • Experience building with design systems, reusable UI, and modern prototyping workflows.
  • Interest in AI-native product experiences and how AI tools change product development.
  • Strong collaboration skills across design and engineering.
  • Builder mindset: proactive, thoughtful, and excited to learn by making.
  • A portfolio demonstrating strong UI craft, prototyping ability, and thoughtful implementation in code.
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

InstaLILY builds AI teammates for the physical-goods economy: industrial distribution, healthcare, supply chain, manufacturing, and automotive. Our model is simple: one company brain, many teammates. We build company-specific AI-powered brains called InstaBrains. Built on small, specialized language models (SLMs), they codify the customer's knowledge and decisions, like their parts, jobs, and pricing. On top of it, InstaWorkers act as AI teammates inside the tools customers already use, completing the sales, service, and operations work that drives the business.

Why Work With Us

Backed by Insight Partners ($25M Series A) and supported by the Google, NVIDIA, and Microsoft ecosystems, we are one of the fastest-growing AI startups in the country. Our team has already driven over $200M in incremental revenue for customers to date. InstaLILY's architecture has been featured in Google DeepMind's case study showcase.

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