Hiring: Founding Design Engineer (AI-Native) Company: Ternion Security Location: Bellevue, WA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-14 12:12:07 Employment Type: Full-time Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Design System, React, React Native, TypeScript, UI/UX About the job Experience: •Design systems at scale accessibility depth. •Founded by a two-time founder with a federal national-security technology background and a military-veteran co-founder. Backed by institutional seed capital and strategic investors. A small founding engineering team — this seat completes it. Required Skills: •We're a stealth-stage, venture-backed startup building an AI-native platform for the teams that protect critical infrastructure — data centers, energy sites, and other regulated facilities. Our users work high-stakes, around-the-clock jobs, and they're experts at those jobs, not at software. If the interface needs a manual, we failed. •Who you might be today •A design engineer, UX engineer, or design technologist at a product company known for craft — the one who owns the design system and ships it. •A senior product designer who never stopped writing production code — your design files and your pull requests have the same author. •A front-end engineer whose portfolio reads like a designer's — you've been the taste on every team you've joined. •A founding designer or indie maker with shipped, polished products real people use — excellent side projects count. •Your work has probably lived where first-time users had to succeed on their own — consumer apps, point-of-sale, clinician-facing healthcare tools, field-service or logistics software, consumer-hardware companions. The industry matters less than the evidence: people who weren't technical used what you built, unassisted, and it held up. •If you've ever been told you're too design for engineering and too engineering for design — that's exactly the profile. You're probably not a fit if you design and hand off, or build and wait for mocks. This seat is both jobs, done by one person, on purpose. Qualifications: •Exceptional taste, with receipts. A portfolio of shipped interfaces we can walk through together — every decision, every tradeoff. This is the gate. •You've made complex things feel simple for people who aren't technical. •You ship what you design — production React and TypeScript. Depth and quality of experience matter more than years. •Restraint — animation that explains, never decorates. Calm beats clever at 3 a.m. •Daily, fluent use of AI coding agents as a core part of how you ship. •U.S. citizenship — required for customer site access and work in export-controlled environments. •Greater Seattle area, in-person — the founding team builds together. Compensation: •$170,000 - $220,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!