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Job overview
Simular is hiring a Design Engineer Intern. Simular is seeking a Design Engineer Intern to work on product surfaces for autonomous agents. This role involves exploring new interaction models, building working prototypes, and using AI tools to accelerate the design process. The intern will also contribute to and maintain the design system, collaborate with engineers, and focus on the craft of design.
Key focus areas include Design end-to-end product surfaces for agent experiences, Explore new interaction models for observing, guiding, and interrupting autonomous agents, and Build working prototypes in code, not just clickable mockups.
Successful candidates bring Bachelor's Or Master's Degree In Design, HCI, Or Related Field Or Equivalent Experience and Portfolio Showing Original Thinking. Important skills include Design End-To-End Product Surfaces, Explore New Interaction Models, Build Working Prototypes In Code, Use AI Tools Aggressively, Run Lightweight User Testing, and Contribute To Design System. Preferred (not required): Motion Design and Designing For AI Products.
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Where multiple locations are listed for this role, the position may be based in any of those locations, with priority determined according to the order of listing.
Designing for autonomous agents is genuinely unsolved. When software acts on its own, the usual patterns stop working: how does someone watch an agent, trust it, correct it, or take back control? There's no established playbook, which makes this an unusually interesting place to design.
You'll work on real product surfaces that ship to users, with the support of an experienced team.
What you'll do
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Design end-to-end product surfaces for agent experiences, from concept through shipped interface
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Explore new interaction models for how people observe, guide, and interrupt autonomous agents
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Build working prototypes in code, not just clickable mockups, so ideas get tested against reality early
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Use AI tools aggressively to compress the distance between an idea and something running
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Run lightweight user testing and turn what you learn into design decisions
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Contribute to and help maintain our design system for consistency across the product
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Work closely with engineers so your designs survive contact with implementation
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Care about craft: spacing, motion, states, and the details most people never consciously notice
You might be a fit if
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You're pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, HCI, or a related field, or equivalent experience
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You have a portfolio showing original thinking, not just competent execution of familiar patterns
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You're fluent in Figma and comfortable prototyping interaction and motion
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You can build what you design: comfortable with HTML/CSS/JS or React, or you vibe-code your way to a working prototype
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You're AI-fluent: you use AI tools daily in your design and building workflow, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don't
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You can explain why you made a decision, not just present the outcome
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You're comfortable with ambiguity and can push a direction forward without a detailed brief
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You give and receive critique well
Bonus: motion design, experience designing for AI products, or a shipped side project people actually use
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.