User Interface Developer (Designer + UX Engineer)

User Interface Developer (Hybrid Designer / UX Engineer) South San Francisco, CA | On-site (5 days/week) - relocation available •Employment Type:Full-time •Work Arrangement:On-site, 5 days per week •Pay Range:$150,000 – $250,000 base salary (varies by interview performance, level, and location). Comp is base + equity; no bonus program. •Location:South San Francisco, CA •Relocation:$5,000 – $10,000 relocation assistance available. •Visa Sponsorship:Will transfer existing visas.NOT open to OPT candidates.About the Company Our client is a seed-stage robotics startup building autonomous surgical robots designed to drastically shorten the learning curve for surgeons. The team uses off-the-shelf robot hardware combined with proprietary controls, planning, and ML algorithms to take high-level guidance from surgeons and execute surgical steps faster and with more precision than the surgeon. The work spans low-latency, high-accuracy planning and controls; computer vision for anatomical landmark detection; and intuitive user interfaces for surgeons to issue commands. The company has raised $14M in seed funding and is based in South San Francisco. Job Summary This is a full-time, on-site role for a hybrid designer / UX engineer who can both design intuitive interfaces and build them. You will be the person responsible for how surgeons interact with the robotics platform: designing the workflows, prototyping the experience, and shipping production-quality front-end code. This role sits between design and engineering and is critical to making the product easy and safe for surgeons to use. Job Responsibilities • Design and build the user-facing interfaces that surgeons use to control and monitor the robotics platform. • Prototype quickly, then ship production-quality React / TypeScript code. • Partner with founders, controls engineers, and ML engineers to translate complex robotics workflows into intuitive UX. • Observe live surgical workflows and incorporate that learning directly into the product. • Own the front-end architecture and interaction patterns for the platform end-to-end. Qualifications • Hybrid designer / UX engineer: strong in both interaction/visual design and front-end engineering. •Production experience with React and TypeScript. • Strong portfolio demonstrating shipped product UX, ideally for complex or technical workflows. • Comfortable building from a blank page; can scope, design, and ship features without heavy direction. • Bonus: experience designing for medical, robotics, industrial, or other high-stakes/safety-critical domains. • Has owned and taken a project all the way to production. • Startup mindset: work hard, work fast, comfortable outside a 9-to-5 structure. •Not open to OPT candidates. • Comfortable viewing live surgical procedures during onsite customer visits. Benefits Comprehensive benefits package available.