Design Engineer

Design Engineer WHO WE ARE Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end — replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like General Motors, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, Mercor, LangChain, and Verkada to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations. At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don’t just respond to requests — they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering. Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we’re building the universal AI operations layer — a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving. We’re backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others, and founded by product and engineering leaders from Verkada. ROLE OVERVIEW Enterprise operations — IT, HR, Finance, Legal — deserves software that's as powerful as it is pleasurable to use. As Serval's first Design Engineer, you are first and foremost a great frontend engineer — someone who's exceptional at React, ships fast, and genuinely cares about UI quality and design craft. You know what quality looks like, and you know when to chase it and when to move fast instead. That judgment — knowing when precision matters and when speed does — is core to how we build at Serval. You'll work directly with design and engineering to raise the standard of what shipped software looks and feels like — closing the gap between design intent and production, and pushing the quality of every interaction further than engineering alone would take it. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Collaborate closely with our Product Designer, frontend engineers, and founders to translate Figma designs into production-ready React and TypeScript with exact fidelity — no drift, no approximation. - Own and evolve Serval's design system implementation, building a shared component library that serves as the single source of truth for both design and engineering. - Leverage AI-assisted workflows to accelerate the design-to-code pipeline — reducing cycles, catching inconsistencies early, and keeping design and implementation in perpetual lockstep. - Build and refine the Serval product experience. - Know when to move fast and rough to validate an idea, and when to slow down and engineer it precisely — and have the judgment to tell the difference. - Design and implement motion and micro-interactions that bring the product to life — transitions, state changes, loading patterns, and feedback loops that make complex agent workflows feel responsive and alive. - Maintain visual and interaction consistency across every product surface, from core workflows to edge cases. - Raise the bar for front-end craft across the engineering team, establishing standards for component architecture, accessibility, and interaction quality. WHAT YOU'LL NEED - 4+ years of experience as a frontend engineer with a strong design background — you care deeply about craft and it shows in your work. - Deep proficiency in React and TypeScript — you write clean, scalable, production-grade front-end code. - Fluency in Figma — you can read, inspect, and implement designs with precision, moving fluidly between the design file and the codebase. - A sharp eye for typography, spacing, motion, and visual hierarchy — you notice when something is off and you ... (truncated, view full listing at source)