--- title: 'Product Designer at Dirac, Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-dirac-inc-san-francisco-7bz6gykt3s3b' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-26' --- # Product Designer at Dirac, Inc. - **Company:** Dirac, Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, CA / New York, NY - **Compensation:** $150k–$200k - **Posted:** 2026-09-24 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/diracinc/jobs/4418451009?gh_jid=4418451009 ## Job description ## About the Company Dirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes. BuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build—the canonical definition of how a product is produced. ## About The Company Dirac is building the creative suite for manufacturing engineering. Manufacturing engineering has been underserved by fractured tooling. The work of defining how a product gets built is spread across process plans, MBOMs, routings, work instructions, spreadsheets, PLM configurations, ERP tables, and internal tools. Each artifact represents only part of the process, forcing engineers to rebuild context whenever a design changes. BuildOS brings these workflows together in one environment. Manufacturing engineers author, version, review, and distribute the Build—the canonical definition of how a product is produced. Figma owns the design file, GitHub owns the repo, Dirac owns the Build. We’re looking for an early Product Designer to define how that suite works and feels. You’ll build serious tools for technical users in a domain where great design can fundamentally change how someone works. We’re a small team that values autonomy, quality, feedback, and a bias toward action. ## About The Role You will own projects from pencil to release, working across user research, product strategy, prototyping, interaction design, visual design, and frontend development. You'll shape both Structure—flows, information architecture, and wireframes—and Surface—layout, typography, color, and interaction polish. ## Responsibilities - Design across BuildOS, including 3D CAD interaction, structured data authoring, document generation, and shop floor workflows. - Define the patterns, primitives, and interactions that make complex workflows feel like one coherent product. - Understand the spreadsheets, internal tools, and manual processes users rely on today, then design replacements that are faster, more complete, and more trustworthy. - Become fluent in manufacturing workflows, including BOMs, BOPs, work instructions, GD&T, PMI, revision control, work centers, and takt time. - Work directly with manufacturing engineers, operators, and customers, including spending time on factory floors. - Help establish Dirac’s design language, design system, and product standards as Build OS grows. - Partner closely with Product and Engineering from early exploration through implementation and release. - Contribute beyond traditional product design through user research, prototyping, frontend development, and product polish. ## Requirements - 5+ years of product design experience, ideally designing complex B2B, technical, or professional software. - High technical acumen and experience designing complex systems, workflows, and information-heavy interfaces. - Strong interaction and visual design skills, from early concepts and prototypes through polished production-ready designs. - Experience owning projects end-to-end, including research, problem definition, design, implementation, and release. - Strong product judgment and the ability to balance user needs, technical constraints, business priorities, and speed. - High attention to detail and a strong bar for craft, usability, and visual quality. - Ability to self-direct, prioritize independently, and thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment. - Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions. - Familiarity with user research, usability testing, and prototyping. - Ability to clearly communicate design decisions and rationale across Product and Engineering. - A bias toward shipping and iteration over perfection. - Curiosity about how physical things get made. Manufacturing experience is not required, but you should want to build that expertise. ## Nice to Have - Experience designing CAD, PLM, EDA, developer tools, data tools, industrial software, or other professional-grade applications. - Experience designing complex data models, tables, hierarchical information, timelines, graphs, or 3D/spatial interfaces. - Experience building or maintaining a design system. - Ability to contribute frontend code, particularly with React, TypeScript, HTML, or CSS. - Experience designing zero-to-one products or working at an early-stage startup. - Experience conducting research with specialized technical users. - Exposure to manufacturing, mechanical engineering, robotics, aerospace, automotive, industrial engineering, or hardware development. ## Why This Role CAD and PLM describe what a product is. ERP and MES record that production happened. Neither describes how the product gets built. There is no established software layer for this work and no established design language for it either. You will have the opportunity to define both. Our users are manufacturing engineers who have spent their careers working around tools that were not built for them. This is an opportunity to define the interaction model and design language for an entirely new category of software. New York Pay Range $150,000—$200,000 USD ## Equal Opportunity Employer Dirac is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Dirac is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. Eligibility Employment is restricted to U.S. Persons as defined by ITAR (22 CFR § 120.62) Benefits: - Health, Dental, Vision Insurance: Comprehensive coverage to ensure you and your family stay healthy. - Generous Paid Time Off: Enjoy flexible, high-trust PTO and sick leave. - Stock Options: Participate in our success with a generous stock option plan. - Commuter Benefits (NYC): Save on transportation costs with our commuter benefits program. ## About Dirac, Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Dirac provides an AI-driven production orchestration platform that automatically generates model-based work instructions, MBOMs, and BOPs from CAD files to streamline manufacturing planning. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2023 - **Founders**: Filip Aronshtein (Founder & CEO), Peter Weiss (Co-founder & CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Manufacturing technology, industrial automation, aerospace & defense, automotive, heavy equipment - **Target customers**: B2B – manufacturing enterprises including defense firms, Tier I–III suppliers, global automotive OEMs, and aerospace companies - **Mission**: “To bring reality back to mechanical design” and “rebuild the memory of American manufacturing” by tightening the feedback loop between design and production ## Products & Services - **BuildOS**: A SaaS platform that automatically converts CAD files and BOMs into step-by-step, animated, and interactive assembly work instructions. Includes tools for sequencing, subassembly definitions, torque specs, quality checks, and real-time updates. Integrates with ERP, PLM, and MES systems. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10.7M (Seed round closed August 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include Founders Fund and Coatue (Seed round lead), along with earlier pre-seed investors Silent Ventures and Acequia Capital. Strategic partnership with Siemens. - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 94.7% year-over-year to approximately 24 employees; early customer wins with aerospace/defense firms (e.g., Ancra Aircraft saw 95% reduction in work instruction creation time); active job postings increased 200% quarter-over-quarter. ## Competitive Advantages - **AI-native automation**: Platform eliminates weeks of manual work by generating animated, context-aware instructions directly from CAD – a true 80/20 tool. - **Model-based approach**: Replaces static PDFs and tribal knowledge with dynamic, always‑up‑to‑date digital work instructions that capture process intent. - **Siemens partnership**: Integration with Siemens’ PLM/digital manufacturing portfolio provides a credible channel and validation across industrial customers. - **Hardware background**: Founding team and early hires come from building planes, cars, and submarines, ensuring deep domain credibility. ## Strategic Focus - **Reshoring enablement**: Help manufacturers bring production back to the West by preserving and scaling critical process knowledge. - **Expanding industry reach**: Grow beyond aerospace/defense into automotive, agriculture, shipbuilding, and heavy industrial equipment. - **Deepening platform integration**: Continue to tighten the loop between engineering (CAD/PLM) and manufacturing execution (MES/ERP) to make production planning fully automated. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values include ambition, tenacity, high autonomy, high trust – described as “a vortex of competence” that executes relentlessly. - **Office policy**: Based in Manhattan, NY; likely hybrid/office-oriented given startup stage. - **Growth stage**: Small (24 employees) with rapid scaling – high impact and ownership for early team members. - **Engineering focus**: Technical roles dominate (11 out of 24 in technical departments); roles include Forward Deployed Engineer, Front End/Full Stack, Site Reliability, and GRC Engineer. - **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the culture emphasizes autonomy and “assembling greatness” with a moonshot orientation. ## Sources 1. [Dirac Homepage](https://www.diracinc.com/) 2. [Dirac Careers Page](https://www.diracinc.com/careers) 3. [Dirac Mission Page](https://www.diracinc.com/mission) 4. [Dirac LinkedIn Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/diracinc) 5. [Dirac Announces $10.7M Funding & Siemens Partnership](https://www.diracinc.com/resources/dirac-announces-10-7m-in-funding-strategic--partnership-with-siemens) 6. 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