Lead Design Engineer (Remote)
Ambush
Estimated Salary: $112K-$188K
Location: Remote
About us
Ambush is an AI company developing AI research & products that accelerate onchain adoption. We’re building Web3’s first autonomous AI agents to simplify wealth creation & onchain safety.
We’re a lean & hyper performance-oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we run head-first towards seemingly impossible ideas. Our entire team is crypto-native & we have a shared North Star of solving web3’s hardest challenges.
Our team is led by one of crypto’s prominent anons, Psycho.
About the role:
We’re hiring a lead design engineer with a proven track record of designing & building software with a high level of polish. This role is a hybrid of design + frontend development, and requires a strong ability of being able to design in code.
You will play a major role in all things design at Ambush.
This will be an exciting role for anyone who wants to own the design & product experience from 0 to 1, as you will be one of the key drivers behind designing + building our software & brand.
We deeply care about building a world-class design experience, so you will be given creative space and autonomy as our trusted design lead.
This role may be a good fit for you if:
You enjoy high ownership of key design decisions across product & brandYou prefer working on smaller teams with high autonomy & less predictabilityYou are a design generalist & enjoy always working on new ideas
This role might not be a good fit for you if:
You like collaborating with a large team of designers & frontend engineersYou like working on established & predictable roadmaps / product specs
Requirements:
Crypto-native; you must deeply understand the pain points of web3 & onchain usersSenior level experience with UX/UI design & UX/UI component animations / motionSenior level frontend development skills, fully comfortable as a frontend engineerPrior experience with building performant and high availability applicationsOur tech stack: Next.js (App Router), Typescript, Tailwind, Framer Motion, AWS, viemBonus but not required: prior experience building or working in AI
Why join Ambush?
Industry leading pay: strong base salary + uncapped profit share + equityLean & high-impact team; we hate bureaucracy & will not grow past ~10 peopleOne of the fastest growing AI companies in cryptoProven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt
Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies.