Design Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer

Posted 7 May 2026

LOCATION

London

TYPE

Full-time

LEVEL

Mid-Senior level

SALARY

£150,000 / year

SKILLS

Figma Motion Graphics UI/UX Design Brand Design Motion Graphics Promotional Videos Product Design Adobe Creative Suite AI/ML

FULL DESCRIPTION

Design Engineer at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Design Engineer to lead design of AI-powered patent drafting and litigation software. The role involves UI/UX design, motion graphics, brand design, and working closely with founders and engineers to build intuitive interfaces for AI interaction.

Job type: Full-time

Location: London, England, GB

Salary: $70K - $150K

Visa sponsorship: Available

About the role

Are you passionate about design, and do you have great product taste? Are you looking to work on groundbreaking AI UI/UX projects? Do you want to be a major part of a rock-star team in a rapidly growing startup, collaborate with industry leaders, and make a real impact in the legal landscape? Do you want to have ownership in a startup building something people want with real paying users and significant traction? This is your chance to join a rocket ship!

️ About the role

The recent step-change in the performance of AI has unlocked products that you fundamentally could not build 18 months ago.

The UX needed to build many of these products is yet to be determined. Chat is a good catch-all, but it is not optimal. There are so many open-ended questions.

That is why now is the most exciting moment in the last 20 years to be building UX.

We’re growing ~25% month-on-month. We’re moving extremely fast, and it’s incredibly exciting.

We need a super talented designer with amazing taste for building clean, intuitive products.

You will work directly with our founders, engineers, AI researchers, and attorneys to build beautiful products and invent new interfaces for humans to interact with AI. You will lead the design of interfaces, components, and UX flows across every part of our product suite.

Additionally, you will lead much of our brand design and motion graphics for promoting our new products and features on social media and at conferences.

You’ll be a Founding Member of a team building something people want.

Who you’ll work with

Sanj (Chief Research Officer and co-founder): Sanj did his MSci in Physics at the University of Cambridge and his PhD in AI at the Gatsby Unit, UCL. He won awards at top AI conferences, worked on the R&D team at Huawei, and received widespread attention for his contributions to open-source LLM GitHub projects. He joined Magic Carpet AI as employee #4, where he developed AI strategies for trading which deployed millions of capital before being acquired by Blockchain.com.
Chris (Chief Executive Officer and co-founder): Chris did his undergrad at Imperial College, masters at the University of Cambridge, and PhD at UCL, during which he published 10+ publications and won awards in top AI conferences and journals. He has worked in leading tech organisations, including Dyson, The Alan Turing Institute, and InstaDeep before its acquisition by BioNTech.
Angus (Chief Technology Officer and co-founder): Angus did an MEng in Computer Science at the University of Bristol where he won a cyber security scholarship at GCHQ before working at Qualcomm. He then joined a London-based hedge fund, Coremont (Brevan Howard). There, he led a small team to build a greenfield trade processing platform which scaled to millions of trades per day.

You’ll also work with the rest of our super talented team of AI researchers, software engineers, patent attorneys, and go-to-market experts.

️ What you bring

As our founding designer/design engineer you will have extensive experience designing UI/UX, branding, motion graphics promotional videos, and more.

Must haves:

Expert in Figma.
Experience with Motion Graphics. We want to launch videos on social media promoting new features and products. An example of a great video of the kind we’d like to routinely publish is the ElevenLabs Series C announcement video: LinkedIn post
Experience building clean, intuitive UI/UX for software products.
Ability to get familiar with a technical product and autonomously innovate new UI/UX in an ambiguous setting.

Nice to haves:

Experience with other design suites (e.g. Adobe) and animation (e.g. Lottie).
Experience with AI.

What we offer

Competitive base salary depending on skill and experience.
Significant equity; we want you to take ownership in [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] and share in the success that lies ahead.
Full visa sponsorship.
Opportunity to work with a super smart and ambitious group of people building something people want.
Private medical insurance.
Free meals.

About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is the fastest-growing startup transforming the IP landscape.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s AI platform manages everything from invention harvesting and patent generation through to litigation and licensing.

Growth: 20-30% MoM revenue growth; selling to 400+ global IP teams across 6 continents (DLA Piper, tech giants, boutiques, etc); 8 figures of ARR - all just ~2 years since we started.
Backing: $55M backing from YC, 20VC, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and the founders of top companies like Stripe, Perplexity, Tinder, Deel, Hugging Face, and Canva.
Impact: 50-90% efficiency and quality improvements.

See our latest Series B announcement.

We’re on a high-growth trajectory, and we’re looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a generational AI company.

Come join the rocket ship