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# Design Intern (Narrative + Interface Systems) at Elloe AI

- **Company:** Elloe AI
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** internship
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-01-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/elloe-ai/am9icG9zdDp85objzmSDADUw5Wh7mZfi

## Job description

Internship | Remote | Brand + Product Design | Reports to Comms or Design Lead

## About Elloe

Elloe is the safety badge for GenAI. We protect AI systems used by hospitals, governments, and banks — and we do it in real time. From hallucination flags to audit overlays, every pixel we show builds trust in systems that were once opaque. We don’t just make AI compliant. We make it explainable, traceable, and visibly safe. That requires design thinking that’s clear, calm, and precise.

## About the Role

This is not just a visual design internship. This is a trust design internship. You’ll define how Elloe shows up across dashboards, compliance overlays, product demos, pitch decks, and public assets. You’ll help make the invisible visible — and help regulators, clients, and partners see the safety in GenAI. This is where interface meets infrastructure.

## What You’ll Own

1. Product Trust Layers

- Prototype UI/UX for real-time safety overlays and audit trail visualizations
- Refine the way Elloe modules like TruthChecker™ and AutoRAG™ express enforcement status
- Collaborate with product to deliver proof-of-safety visuals that scale across clients

1. Brand Design & Asset Library

- Create reusable templates and modules for investor decks, pilot snapshots, and partner kits
- Build a visual toolkit that supports comms and GTM: graphs, icons, motion snippets, badges
- Align every design asset with Elloe’s tone: calm, forensic, enterprise-grade

1. Narrative Visualization

- Co-create design-forward compliance storylines (e.g. “from hallucination to audit trail”)
- Explore animations or flow-based storytelling to explain Elloe’s infrastructure in 30 seconds or less
- Maintain a consistent visual identity across surfaces: product, pitch, press, and policy

## Who You Are

- Student or early-career designer with systems-thinking mindset
- Fluent in Figma, and comfortable with prototyping data or process-heavy UI
- Strong portfolio showing clarity, restraint, and trust-forward design
- Bonus: experience with Webflow, After Effects, or motion libraries

## Why This Matters

Compliance isn’t just legal. It’s perceptual. Elloe’s interfaces must earn trust the moment a user sees them. This role is how we visually define what “provable safety” means in AI.

You’ll leave this role with:

- Portfolio-level contributions to enterprise product and visual brand
- Experience designing trust systems for high-stakes AI deployments
- Influence over how a category-defining company presents itself to the world

Logistics & Application

- Start Date: Rolling
- Duration: 8–12 weeks
- Compensation: Competitive stipend
- Location: Remote-first; timezone overlap flexible
- To Apply: Share a portfolio link and the interface moment you’re most proud of.

## About Elloe AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Elloe AI provides a real-time compliance layer that acts as an “immune system” for AI, making large language models safe to deploy across regulated industries.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed, $1M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2022 (Pre-Seed round closed April 2022)
- **Founders**: Owen Sakawa (CEO & Co-Founder), Jackson Mwaniki (CTO & Co-Founder), Aaron Madolora (CPO & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Safety & Governance, Enterprise Compliance, Cybersecurity
- **Target customers**: Governments, hospitals, financial institutions, and other regulated enterprises (B2B)
- **Mission statement**: “Build the immune system for AI—systems that make AI safe, truthful, and compliant in the real world.”

## Products & Services
- **Elloe AI Platform**: An API/SDK that sits on top of an LLM’s output layer, providing three “anchors”:
  1. **Fact-checking anchor** – verifies responses against trusted sources.
  2. **Regulatory compliance anchor** – checks for violations of HIPAA, GDPR, PII exposure, and other regulations.
  3. **Audit trail anchor** – logs every decision, source, and confidence score for full traceability.
  The platform is not built on another LLM, but uses machine learning and human-in-the-loop oversight.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~$870K (company-reported); Total Funding $1M (Pre-Seed, led by Mad Ventures in April 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mad Ventures (sole lead investor in Pre-Seed round); also acquired Saada (2022)
- **Growth Signals**: Finalist (Top 20) in TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 Startup Battlefield; headcount growth trending negative (-16.7% YoY) but still hiring for multiple roles as of late 2025; offices opened in Nairobi and London; claims to have prevented 100,000+ medical errors, blocked $20M+ in biased loans, and protected 12M+ AI-driven risks.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Not an LLM judging LLMs**: Elloe AI’s system uses its own ML models and human analysts, avoiding the “Band-Aid on a wound” problem of having one LLM check another.
- **Multi-layer anchor system**: Fact-checking, regulatory compliance, and full audit trail are built-in, not bolted on.
- **Regulatory expertise**: The company keeps up with evolving global regulations (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.) and employs humans-in-the-loop to stay current.
- **Early trust in regulated verticals**: Already deployed by governments, hospitals, and enterprises, giving them domain-specific credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen compliance capabilities**: Expand coverage of regulatory frameworks and jurisdictions.
- **Global expansion**: Offices in Austin, Nairobi, and London suggest a push into North America, Africa, and Europe.
- **Product development**: Building out “anchors” for more use cases, and possibly edge inference for GPU environments (as seen in job postings for Principal Engineer – Distributed Systems).
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring for roles in engineering, design, product, policy, and communications – indicating a growth phase focused on scaling the team despite recent headcount dip.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: The team describes itself as “mission-first, values-led,” focused on making AI safe and trustworthy in critical domains.
- **Small, global team**: With ~10 employees across three continents, new hires can have outsized impact and direct exposure to founders.
- **Flexible work options**: Job postings list “In-Office or Remote” for most roles, with the Austin HQ operating on-site; typical time on-site is listed as “OnSite Workspace” for HQ, but remote arrangements appear available.
- **High-profile visibility**: Being a Top 20 finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 gives the company industry recognition and a startup event pedigree.
- **Meaningful impact**: The company’s own metrics (100K+ medical errors prevented, $20M+ biased loans blocked) suggest employees contribute to directly measurable social good.
- **Diverse, distributed team**: Team members come from backgrounds including Cerner, SAP, Freshworks, Kenya Power, and others, indicating a mix of enterprise and startup experience.

## Sources
1. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/elloe-ai-wants-to-be-the-immune-system-for-ai-check-it-out-at-disrupt-2025/)
2. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/elloe-inc)
3. [Elloe AI – Who We Are](https://www.elloe.ai/who-we-are)
4. [Built In – Elloe AI Careers](https://builtin.com/company/elloe-ai)
5. [Gem – Elloe AI Careers](https://jobs.gem.com/elloe-ai)

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