Substrate builds financial infrastructure to grow industrial GDP.
We're hiring a Founding Design Engineer to lead the effort to make Substrate's products 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.
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 art styles
You can spin up fast mockups and demos in Figma, Lovable, or similar feels like second nature
You live in tools like Mobbin and 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
$125-$175K base + $50,000-90,000 equity
Best-in-class medical, dental, vision
401K
Unlimited vacation
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 experience with a portfolio of interfaces designed
- Strong writing ability
- Ability to create fast, high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes using Figma, Lovable, or similar tools
- Interest in design history and art styles
- Familiarity with Mobbin and Figr
- Interest in growth design and conversion-focused product experiences
- Strong interest in LLMs
- Alignment with the company's engineering philosophy
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.
