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Design Engineer

Conductor

San Francisco, CAFull-time$175–300K/yrSeen 2mo agoStill listed today

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Compensation
$175–300K/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Conductor is building the human interface to AI organizations, offering a fast‑moving, craft‑focused environment in its San Francisco office. They seek a design engineer to create beautiful, intuitive IDE interfaces, generate ideas, explore solutions, engage users, prototype designs, and help build them.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Move FastCraftsmanshipStrong Opinions About SoftwareStartup Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance

Full job description

Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We launched a few months ago, and are now used by engineers at leading companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and Y Combinator. One user told me: A huge amount of my work now is wildly parallelized, in a way I’ve never had to worry about before. It’s been a while since a dev tool has changed my life [like Conductor did].

We’re on a mission to build the human interface to AI organizations. Our team is small but growing. Come join the co-founders and jump into an exciting space where you can do the best work of your life. No AI experience needed, just some enthusiasm for the awesome alien power of LLMs. About us

  • Charlie and Jackson met eight years ago when we played ultimate frisbee together at Brown. Last year, we quit our jobs at Point72 and Netflix to start Conductor together.
  • Our team is small, so there is a lot of room to grow!
  • We ship unusually fast
  • We’re backed by some of the best investors in the valley. We have plenty of money to keep the company running through rough patches.
  • We work in person in our beautiful San Francisco office

About you We’re looking for a design engineer who can help us create beautiful and intuitive interfaces for the next generation of IDEs. Someone who can do it all: an idea generator, an explorer, someone who can talk with users, design, prototype, and then help us build it. You’re probably a good fit if:

  • You like to move fast
  • You care about craft and take pride in your work
  • You have strong opinions about software
  • You have startup experience

Compensation Pay Compared to similar companies at our stage, we aim to pay roughly median salary and 90th percentile equity. We give out more stock than other companies because we hire less, and each employee can make an unusually large impact. For exceptional talent, we’re happy to pay exceptional amounts, in cash and especially equity. If that’s you, please reach out. Health care

  • Health: Aetna PPO $500
  • Dental: Guardian PPO 2000
  • Vision: Guardian VSP Vision (Choice)

… and, most importantly, Real Health Care: sleep, nutrition, exercise, social support. We try to make Conductor a strongly positive influence on all those fronts. Other Whatever you need to be productive, we’ll help you get it. We trust our team with an extremely broad expense policy. More about our culture.

How this job compares

Set against the 2,796 open Design Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$175–300K/yr
  • California median$129–194K/yr297 salary ranges
  • US median$112–160K/yr1,797 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $238K, is 47% above the California median midpoint ($162K) — in the top quarter of Design Engineer salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 408 open Design Engineer jobs in California and 2,796 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Design Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 2,269 postings).
Education
1,945 of the 2,796 open Design Engineer jobs (70%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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