Design Engineer

Braintrust is hiring a Design Engineer in San Francisco, United States. Level rates it ; you can apply on Braintrust.

Level's read on this job

Works on AI ●●●○ is how Level rates this role: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
Tools and skills the posting cites include OpenAI.
Level lists 28 other open roles at Braintrust.

AI in this role

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About the company

Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.

Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.

About the role

We're looking for a design engineer who loves working on complex problems and designing products that power-users love to use on a daily basis. Our primary users are engineers and PMs at innovative tech companies who spend multiple hours a day using our product to run experiments, analyze user behavior, and try out new ideas, seamlessly shifting between their code and our UI.

In this role, you will:

Play a significant role in developing the core user experience of our product. You will work across UI, API, and SDK, ensuring that Braintrust is a seamless tool in every AI engineer’s work day.
Work closely with our users to deeply understand their needs and contribute to the product roadmap. You are comfortable owning the entire product lifecycle from gathering requirements to ideating, designing, and implementing.
Partner closely with our product and engineering teams. You’ll work to establish and implement a design system that enables rapid product iteration.

Ideal candidate credentials

You have experience designing zero to one B2B products with complex requirements.
You enjoy building things and are familiar with modern devtools (send us a link to your Github!).
You have owned problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done.
You have thrived in environments where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.

Benefits include

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Flexible time off
Competitive salary and equity
Wifi & cellphone stipend

Equal opportunity

Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

How we rate this

Design Engineer at Braintrust rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Design Engineer is an open job at Braintrust.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The role is based in San Francisco.
The job was posted on October 9, 2024.
Applications are handled by Braintrust. Apply on Braintrust

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

OpenAI

Questions you could be asked

What's a project where you used OpenAI hands-on?
Describe a typical day in a role like this one: which parts run through AI directly?
If you removed AI from this role, what would be left, and how do you decide what still needs a human?

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List these exact terms on your resume: OpenAI. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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