Symbolica AI

Lead Frontend Engineer (UI/UX) – AI Agentic Systems at Symbolica AI (San Francisco, CA)

Symbolica AI· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

About the Role

As a Lead Frontend Engineer you will be working on a highly technical interface for deploying AI systems. You’ll take ownership of building and iterating on functional prototypes for potential customer use cases, ensuring seamless end-to-end integration across the stack. Additionally, you’ll work closely with our research team to create interactive interfaces that bring agentic systems to life.

📍 This is an onsite role based in our SF office (345 California St).

Your Focus

  • Own and develop a vision for how developers discover, onboard, build, and scale applications with Symbolica's new flagship product.
  • Design and implement intuitive, responsive, and visually polished UI for complex systems, with a strong emphasis on usability and accessibility.
  • Partner with product and design to translate abstract concepts into clear, elegant user flows and interactive experiences.
  • Build, test, and iterate on functional prototypes based on real user needs.
  • Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product leads to turn ideas into polished features.
  • Create and maintain a consistent design system and reusable frontend components that balance aesthetics with performance.
  • Debug performance issues and run A/B tests to continuously improve UX.
  • Attend developer events and workshops to introduce, prototype, and teach technical audiences how to build and deploy complex multi-agent systems.- Translate this external feedback to build user empathy and advocate for developer experience internally.

About You

  • Excellent at translating complex ideas into simple, beautiful, and highly usable UI/UX.
  • Proficient in TypeScript and React.
  • Equally passionate about design and engineering – you care as much about visual polish, accessibility, and interaction design as you do about clean, scalable code.
  • Comfortable prototyping quickly and shipping production-ready code.
  • Experience collaborating with designers or directly owning design systems, style guides, or user interface patterns.
  • Experience working on machine learning and/or AI projects is a plus.
  • Experience building scalable, data intensive web apps, including RESTful APIs and GraphQL.
  • Passion for writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
  • Effective communication skills and a collaborative mindset to work across diverse teams.

What We Offer

  • Competitive salary and early-stage equity package.
  • A high-trust, execution-first culture with minimal bureaucracy.
  • Direct ownership of meaningful projects with real business impact.
  • A rare opportunity to sit at the interface between deep research and real-world productisation.

Why work at Symbolica AI

  • Culture: A research-driven environment that values “deep math and AI” – employees work on first-principles problems in category theory, type theory, and automated theorem proving. The team is small (16 people) with a high concentration of technical and research roles (over 50% of staff). linkedin.com
  • Work style: Hybrid presence in San Francisco and London offices; no explicit remote-only policy, but the company supports distributed teams across the US and UK.
  • Perks & recognition: Employer rating of 4.3/5 on LinkedIn (17 reviews), with compensation scoring 4.6/5 and culture scoring 4.1/5. linkedin.com
  • Engineering culture: Heavy use of Rust, formal logic, and compilers; recent hackathon focused on Rust and automated theorem proving. The company explicitly seeks engineers and researchers “kept awake wondering what will come after deep learning.” symbolica.ai
  • Current hiring status: No open positions listed as of the latest update, but the company encourages checking back and previously hosted events to recruit Rust/formal methods talent. symbolica.ai

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