Design Engineer

The Role

As a Design Engineer at Superpower, you will shape and build the interfaces through which members understand and manage their health. You will collaborate closely with designers and product engineers to turn complex health information into clear, intuitive experiences, taking ideas from early prototypes through production. This is a hands-on opportunity to combine design judgment with engineering depth and influence how our product looks, feels, and works.

You will work primarily in React and TypeScript, with ownership of the details that make an experience feel considered: typography, layout, motion, interaction, and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build intuitive interfaces for core member journeys, from understanding health results to navigating ongoing care.
• Collaborate with product, design, and clinical teams to translate complex information into clear, accessible experiences.
• Create interactive prototypes to explore ideas, test assumptions, and help the team choose a direction.
• Build and maintain reusable components and interaction patterns that improve consistency across the product.
• Own interface quality across responsive layouts, loading and error states, accessibility, and performance.
• Work with backend and mobile engineers to integrate real data, ship complete experiences, and improve them through feedback and product usage.

Qualifications

• A portfolio of interfaces you have designed and built, demonstrating your personal contribution, technical decisions, and attention to detail.
• Strong experience with React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, and modern frontend development practices.
• Excellent visual and interaction design judgment, including typography, hierarchy, spacing, and motion.
• The ability to explore ideas in Figma or code, explain your decisions, and work constructively through critique.
• Experience building production interfaces that handle real data, different screen sizes, accessibility needs, and edge cases.
• Demonstrated ability to own work independently from prototype through release, including testing and debugging code developed with AI tools. An interest in healthcare, wellness, or longevity is a strong plus.

Tech Stack

• Languages & Frameworks: React, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• UI & Components: Tailwind CSS, Storybook
• Design & Prototyping: Figma, interactive prototypes in code
• Product & Collaboration: Linear, Notion, Slack

Work Location & Environment

This is an in-person role based in San Francisco. You will work closely with product, design, clinical, and engineering teammates, with room to explore ideas and responsibility for carrying them through to a polished product.

Why We Are Building This

• We believe better health gives people more freedom to do the things that matter to them. Understanding and managing your health should be simpler, more personal, and part of everyday life.
• Superpower is the product we’ve always wanted: a thoughtfully designed, all-in-one platform for understanding and improving our health.

Company Philosophies

• We are all here to genuinely do our life’s best work
• Insanely high talent bar, never settling.
• We live to work as much as we work to live. But we sustainably espouse the superpower ethos of putting health first
• We aim to set the gold standard for team health culture on the planet - live the ethos!

Investors

• Forerunner (Top consumer healthcare VC in the world; early board members of Hims and Oura; Kirsten, founder of Forerunner, led our Series A)
• 8VC (leading health and bio investor)
• Evan Moore (Founder of Doordash; Partner at Khosla Ventures)
• Cyan Bannister (early investor into Uber and SpaceX, former partner at Founder’s Fund, regarded as one of the top angels in the world)
• Balaji Srinivasan (ex-Coinbase CTO and angel, ex-General Partner at a16z)
• Arielle Zuckerberg (active angel, tech leader, relatively famous brother)
• Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss
• Susa Ventures (tier 1 healthcare VC)
• Bond Capital (General Partner Jay Simons ' early-stage fund within Bond)
• Long Journey Ventures (investor in Uber, Notion, Loom, Affirm etc.)
• Influencers
• Shaan Puri (angel and podcast host of my first million)
• Brooke Monke (50 million followers across socials)
• Logan Paul
• Steve Aoki
• Justin Mares (founder of Truemed)
• Giannis Antetokounmpo
• Kylian Mbappé

We’re proud to be a global team and welcome talent from around the world. We offer visa sponsorship and can support relocation to the United States for the right candidates. Much of our team is international, and we’re committed to building a team of top-tier talent.