
Design Engineer at Braintrust (San Francisco, CA)
Braintrust· San Francisco, CA·
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We're looking for a design engineer who loves working on complex problems and designing products that power-users love to use on a daily basis. Our primary users are engineers and PMs at innovative tech companies who spend multiple hours a day using our product to run experiments, analyze user behavior, and try out new ideas, seamlessly shifting between their code and our UI.
In this role, you will:
- Play a significant role in developing the core user experience of our product. You will work across UI, API, and SDK, ensuring that Braintrust is a seamless tool in every AI engineer’s work day.
- Work closely with our users to deeply understand their needs and contribute to the product roadmap. You are comfortable owning the entire product lifecycle from gathering requirements to ideating, designing, and implementing.
- Partner closely with our product and engineering teams. You’ll work to establish and implement a design system that enables rapid product iteration.
IDEAL CANDIDATE CREDENTIALS
- You have experience designing zero to one B2B products with complex requirements.
- You enjoy building things and are familiar with modern devtools (send us a link to your Github!).
- You have owned problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you’re missing to get the job done.
- You have thrived in environments where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.
BENEFITS INCLUDE
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Flexible time off
- Competitive salary and equity
- Wifi & cellphone stipend
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Why work at Braintrust
- High Growth Environment: The company is in a hyper-growth phase (+416% headcount growth), offering significant opportunities for career advancement, ownership, and impact.
- Cutting-Edge Domain: Working on a critical problem for the AI industry—observability and reliability—which is a high-priority area for many companies.
- Strong Engineering Culture: The company is heavily technical (36% of staff in technical roles). The leadership includes a founder (Ankur Goyal) and a VP, Field CTO (Ameya Bhatawdekar), suggesting a deep technical focus.
- Culture Highlights: The company seeks "highly independent, self-motivated, and creative people," suggesting a culture of autonomy and innovation.
- Work Policy: Roles are listed for San Francisco, New York City, and Remote, indicating a flexible, hybrid-friendly approach.
- Notable Perks: The company invests heavily in its security and compliance infrastructure (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR), which is a strong signal for employees who value building robust, enterprise-grade systems.