Design Engineer at Chai Discovery

The role

As the first Design Engineer at Chai, you will define and build the interaction paradigm for the world's most advanced drug design models. You will own the end-to-end process from initial research and sketches to shipping polished production code.

What you'll do

• Define how scientists interact with advanced molecular design models
• Own the product interaction paradigm from research to production code
• Create low-fidelity sketches and high-fidelity interactive prototypes
• Build and ship polished user interfaces using production front-end code
• Simplify cluttered and dense molecular biology data into intuitive interfaces
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists to synthesize complex technical requirements

What you'll bring

• Over five years of experience designing exceptional products for domain experts
• Proficiency in moving from Figma sketches to production-ready front-end code
• Proven track record of designing innovative AI-first products
• Strong bias for simplicity and minimalism within highly technical domains
• Excellent communication skills to articulate design decisions to cross-functional teams

Your impact

You will invent a new category of software that defines how medicine is designed on a computer, making complex molecular structures accessible and intuitive. Your work will provide critical leverage to frontier AI models, directly accelerating the drug discovery programs of leading pharmaceutical companies.