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title: 'Design Engineer, Web/Brand at LiveKit'
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# Design Engineer, Web/Brand at LiveKit

- **Company:** LiveKit
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/livekit/88a67836-6ec6-4112-a69c-77bc9c7a369d

## Job description

## About LiveKit

LiveKit is building the infrastructure layer for the voice-driven era of computing. Our platform gives developers everything they need to build, test, deploy, scale, and observe agents in production. Founded in 2021, LiveKit powers voice AI applications for OpenAI, xAI, Salesforce, Coursera, Spotify, and thousands of others, collectively facilitating billions of calls each year.

## About This Role

Developer-first companies are allergic to marketing — which means our web work has to be so good it doesn't feel like marketing. That's the job. Most "design engineer" roles are really front-end roles with a nicer title: implement the mockup, close the ticket. This one isn't. We're rolling out a new brand identity, and we need someone to engineer it into existence — the components, the motion systems, the tooling that make a brand real instead of a PDF nobody opens. You're the kind of person who profiles an animation at 10pm because 60fps wasn't negotiable, who notices when an easing curve is wrong from across the room, and who thinks the gap between "looks like the design" and "feels alive" is where the actual work lives. You'll thrive as a Design Engineer if you:

- obsess with crafting code that is fast, reliable and practical for the problem
- are known as the go-to person for tackling tough technical problems
- work hard and can build and ship fast
- can clearly explain complex technical concepts to others
- are a fast learner, frequently picking up new languages and tools

The best way to impress us is with thoughtful Issues and/or PRs on our Github repos 😊

## What You'll Do

- Own the craft of [livekit.com](http://livekit.com) — push the boundaries of what a developer-facing marketing site can be in motion, interaction, and performance
- Engineer our new brand identity into a living system: components, motion patterns, and tooling that let the whole team ship on-brand work fast
- Build launch pages, product pages, and campaign surfaces that hold an insanely high bar without slowing anyone down
- Treat performance as a feature — rich experiences that stay fast, measured and defended with real budgets
- Partner daily with brand designers, marketers, and the design engineering team to turn ambitious ideas into shipped web

## Who You Are

- An exceptional front-end engineer with a portfolio of production web work that speaks for itself
- Obsessive about detail — motion, interaction, and performance are your home turf, not checkboxes
- Fluent in translating brand and design intent into reusable systems and components
- Fast and self-directed — you ship polished work without waiting for perfect specs
- A strong collaborator with designers — you elevate their ideas rather than flattening them into what's easy

## Nice to Have

- Experience at a developer-tools, API, or infrastructure company — you know why engineers distrust marketing and how to win them over
- WebGL, shaders, or creative-coding chops for the moments that call for something nobody's seen before
- Design system contributions — tokens, primitives, docs that other people actually used
- Battle scars from making a rich site pass Core Web Vitals — and strong opinions about how
- You have a folder of screen recordings of other people's website interactions, purely for study (we won't judge)

Our Commitment to You

- An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
- Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
- Competitive salary and equity package
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Flexible vacation policy

LiveKit is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable law. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please contact recruiting@livekit.io.

## About LiveKit

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: LiveKit provides an open-source framework and cloud platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice, video, and physical AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Jose, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: David Zhao (Co-Founder and CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Developer Infrastructure, Real-Time Communications (RTC), Voice AI, Video AI, Robotics
- **Target customers**: B2B; Developers, AI labs, robotics teams, and enterprises (including Fortune 500 companies) building real-time multimodal AI applications.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To build the infrastructure for the voice-driven era of computing, making it possible for every developer to build AI that can interact with the world in real time.

## Products & Services
- **LiveKit Cloud**: A hosted, managed platform for deploying and scaling AI agents globally. It provides a global real-time media server network with sub-1000ms latency and 99.99% uptime, handling millions of concurrent calls. Includes telephony integration (phone numbers, SIP), full-stack observability, and an inference gateway for TTS, LLM, and STT models.
- **LiveKit Agents Framework**: An open-source, high-level framework (Python/Node.js) for building AI agents. It includes tools for automatic turn detection, interruption handling, voice activity detection (VAD), and a plugin system for connecting to various AI providers.
- **LiveKit Server (Open Source)**: The core open-source WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that orchestrates real-time communication. Can be self-hosted or used with LiveKit Cloud.
- **Integration Services**: Telephony (PSTN/SIP connectivity), Egress (recording and streaming), and Ingress (external media streams).
- **Client SDKs**: Real-time SDKs for Web, Swift, Android, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Python, Node.js, Rust, C++, and ESP32.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. Total funding is $181M.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $181M. Over 2.5 billion calls powered annually. Over 300,000 developers use the platform.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Index Ventures (led Series C), Altimeter Capital (led Series A), Redpoint (led Seed). Angel investors include Elad Gil, Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google), Aravind Srinivas (CEO, Perplexity), Guillermo Rauch (CEO, Vercel), Amjad Masad (CEO, Replit), Mati Staniszewski (CEO, ElevenLabs), Erik Bernhardsson (CEO, Modal), Logan Kilpatrick (Product Lead, Google DeepMind), Rohan Anil (Researcher, Anthropic), Garrett Camp (Founder, Uber), Ev Williams (Founder, Twitter), and Justin Kan (Founder, Twitch). Key customer: OpenAI (built ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice on LiveKit Cloud).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+7.1% monthly). Raised a $100M Series C in January 2026. Expanded from a WebRTC livestreaming project to the default infrastructure layer for voice AI. Operates in 12 countries. SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-Source Foundation**: A large and active open-source community (over 300,000 developers) creates a strong ecosystem and lowers the barrier to entry.
- **Full-Stack Platform**: Provides everything from the media server and client SDKs to the agent framework, inference gateway, and telephony integration, offering a unified, end-to-end solution.
- **Proven at Scale**: Powers billions of calls annually for the world’s leading AI companies, including OpenAI’s Advanced Voice Mode, demonstrating extreme reliability and performance.
- **Global Infrastructure**: A global network of media servers ensures low latency (<1000ms) and high uptime (99.99%) for real-time voice and video applications.
- **Enterprise-Grade Compliance**: SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant, making it suitable for regulated industries.

## Strategic Focus
- **Voice-First AI Infrastructure**: Doubling down on being the default platform for the emerging voice-driven computing paradigm.
- **Expanding the Agent Ecosystem**: Continuously improving the Agents framework, adding new plugins, and supporting more AI models and hardware (including robotics).
- **Scaling the Cloud Platform**: Investing in global infrastructure to handle increasing demand and maintain performance as usage grows.
- **Enterprise Adoption**: Targeting Fortune 500 companies and regulated industries by emphasizing compliance, security, and reliability.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Impact Work**: Build the core infrastructure powering the next generation of AI applications used by millions. Employees work on challenging problems in distributed systems, real-time media, and AI.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: A technical team with a high density of senior engineers. The tech stack is modern and includes Go, Rust, Python, TypeScript, WebRTC, Kubernetes, and various AI/ML tools.
- **Remote-First with Hubs**: The company is remote-first but has a hybrid hub in San Francisco. Employees are distributed across 12 countries including the US, Canada, Germany, UK, and India.
- **Top-Tier Investors & Advisors**: Backed by the best investors and advised by leaders from Google, OpenAI, and other top AI companies, providing a strong network and strategic direction.
- **Growth Trajectory**: The company is in a high-growth phase (recent $100M Series C, rapid hiring), offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Culture**: Described as having a 5.0/5.0 employer rating on LinkedIn, with high marks for work-life balance, compensation, and career development. The company values "crazy ones" who want to build the future.

## Sources
1. [livekit.com](https://livekit.com/)
2. [livekit.com/about](https://livekit.com/about)
3. [livekit.com/careers](https://livekit.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/livekitco](https://www.linkedin.com/company/livekitco)
5. [docs.livekit.io](https://docs.livekit.io/intro/about/)

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