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title: 'Senior Product Designer at SandboxAQ'
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# Senior Product Designer at SandboxAQ

- **Company:** SandboxAQ
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sandboxaq/9b0f30a5-ed1f-4d68-9090-f1cee358d186

## Job description

## About SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company’s Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) power advances in life sciences, financial services, navigation, cybersecurity, and other sectors. We are a global team that is tech-focused and includes experts in AI, chemistry, cybersecurity, physics, mathematics, medicine, engineering, and other specialties. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022, funded by leading investors and supported by a braintrust of industry leaders. At SandboxAQ, we’ve cultivated an environment that encourages creativity, collaboration, and impact. By investing deeply in our people, we’re building a thriving, global workforce poised to tackle the world's epic challenges. Join us to advance your career in pursuit of an inspiring mission, in a community of like-minded people who value entrepreneurialism, ownership, and transformative impact.

The Opportunity The SandboxAQ Design team is one unified organization spanning brand, creative, and product, with designers embedded day-to-day in the Business Units they support. This role will initially be working on our AI agentic platform and products. We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to join our central Design team, reporting to the VP of Design. You will define how people build, evaluate, and trust AI agents in an emerging category, making complex technical concepts understandable across both open-source developer products and enterprise control systems. What makes this work genuinely hard: the category is entirely new yet fast-evolving and crowded, and the audiences are deeply varied. In this role, you will:

- Turn unique value propositions into well-crafted, intuitive UX.
- Design for deeply varied audiences, from command-line-first developers to enterprise security leaders, constantly balancing power, privacy, control, and speed.
- Create coherent experiences across the product's surfaces: command line, web and console, collaboration spaces, onboarding, and documentation.
- Establish the reusable patterns, design principles, and systems thinking the product family grows into.

## Key Responsibilities

- Drive product vision and direction. Partner with Product and Engineering to define what should be built and how it should work, frame ambiguous problems into clear opportunities, hypotheses, and design directions, break long and complex projects into executable units of work, and identify risks and opportunities to solve collectively.
- Design and prototype in code to accelerate product decisions, customer conversations, and team alignment, collaborating with engineers early so technical constraints shape the design.
- Own visual and interaction design across every surface — command line, web and console, collaboration spaces, onboarding, and documentation — developing and evolving a style guide and design system, and contributing reusable patterns and design principles as the product family grows.
- Ground decisions in evidence. Conduct workshops, qualitative interviews, usability testing, and other research methods, analyze product analytics to improve user interactions, and distil complex, dense information into clarifying data visualizations and views for the various lenses of user archetypes.
- Operate as part of the org-wide design function. Maintain dotted-line, cross-departmental collaboration with design functions in other SandboxAQ Business Units, interface with go-to-market partners on interfaces that support Sandbox's strategic partnership efforts, and travel occasionally to work with teams and customers in person.

Essential Skills & Experience

- ~6+ years building interfaces for complex technical domains — developer tools, enterprise, security, infrastructure, or AI — with exceptional visual and interaction design craft.
- Strong working knowledge of AI and agentic products and systems, and the ability to make complex technical workflows clear without making them simplistic.
- Fluency with Figma and beyond: using AI tools to augment design efficiency from research to content generation to prototyping in code, plus comfort working directly with engineers and reasoning about technical constraints.
- Hands-on experience conducting user research (usability studies, contextual inquiry, surveys) paired with strong product sense connecting user needs to business and technical outcomes.
- Proven success with early-stage products and companies in fast-paced, highly ambiguous, high-autonomy environments: iterative, proactive, outcome-driven, and a strong verbal communicator able to articulate design concepts to multi-disciplinary stakeholders.

Highly Desired Skills & Experience

- Experience designing developer tools, command-line experiences, or open-source products.
- Familiarity with emerging machine learning workflows or agentic frameworks.
- Familiarity with cloud-based platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Why Join Us? We offer competitive compensation, a comprehensive benefits package, and opportunities for professional growth.

- Compensation: Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, plus equity and performance-based incentives.
- Benefits: Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; generous parental leave.
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible hybrid work arrangements, generous PTO, and a culture that respects focus time and recovery.
- Career Development: Direct exposure to CHIPS Act-funded programs, senior scientific and executive leadership, mentorship, and dedicated learning budgets to support continued growth.

SandboxAQ Welcomes All We are committed to fostering a culture of belonging and respect, where diverse perspectives are actively sought and valued. Our multidisciplinary environment provides ample opportunity for continuous growth - working alongside humble, empowered, and ambitious colleagues ready to tackle epic challenges. Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. Accommodations: We provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities in job application procedures for open roles. If you need such an accommodation, please let a member of our Recruiting team know. Read: [Guidance for candidates on using AI Tools in interviews](https://www.sandboxaq.com/ai-in-interviews)

## About SandboxAQ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SandboxAQ develops Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) that combine AI and quantum techniques to solve real-world challenges in drug discovery, materials, navigation, cybersecurity, and other high-impact sectors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Late Stage; raised $1.6B total, including Series E, venture rounds, and grants)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2021 (spun out from Alphabet in 2022)
- **Founders**: Jack Hidary (CEO); Eric Schmidt serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors

## Core Business
- **Primary Industries**: AI/Quantum software, life sciences (drug discovery), cybersecurity, financial services, navigation/defense, materials science
- **Target Customers**: B2B, serving large enterprises and government organizations in pharma, energy, defense, finance, and logistics
- **Mission**: Revolutionize industries with groundbreaking solutions at the intersection of AI and quantum technology

## Products & Services
- **AQBioSim**: AI simulation platform for accelerating molecular design and reducing failure rates in drug discovery (SaaS)
- **LQMs for Cybersecurity**: Cryptography management and quantum-safe security solutions (e.g., post-quantum cryptography, key management)
- **AI Navigation & Sensing**: Precise positioning and navigation systems resistant to jamming/spoofing, leveraging AI and quantum sensors (SaaS + hardware integration)
- **Materials & Chemistry Modeling**: LQMs that predict atomic-level properties to unlock new compounds for chemicals and materials (SaaS)
- **Financial Services LQMs**: Models for risk analysis, portfolio optimization, and fraud detection (SaaS)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed; total funding reached $1.6 billion
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding: $1.6B (13 rounds); Annual Revenue (estimated): $9M (via disclosed financial data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: T. Rowe Price, Eric Schmidt, Breyer Capital, Guggenheim Partners, Marc Benioff, Thomas Tull, Paladin Capital Group, Nvidia (backed via grant/award)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: ~296 employees (+10.6% YoY)
  - Operating in 16 countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Spain, Switzerland, etc.)
  - Acquired Good Chemistry (Jan 2024) and Cryptosense (Sep 2022) to expand capabilities
  - Recent funding: $95M venture round (July 2025), additional private equity round (Feb 2026)
  - US government awarded $500M (Nvidia-backed) for finding new outcomes (likely defense/pharma contract)
  - Recognized with multiple industry awards (Fierce Innovator in Life Sciences 2025, Wash100 Award, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Quantitative AI (LQMs)**: Models that understand the physical world (molecules, materials, navigation) – distinct from purely data-driven LLMs
- **Alphabet Spinout Heritage**: Foundational technology and talent from Google’s parent company
- **Multidisciplinary Team**: Physicists, chemists, cryptographers, AI researchers – rare combination
- **Strong Government & Enterprise Ties**: Direct contracts with US defense and pharma, plus deep investor network
- **Integrated Portfolio**: One platform covering simulation, cybersecurity, and sensing – creating cross-selling opportunities

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale LQM Applications**: Expand from drug discovery into climate, energy, and defense
- **Deepen Government Partnerships**: Capitalize on $500M US award and develop mission-critical navigation/security systems
- **Build Ecosystem**: Open APIs and partnerships with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Databricks) to embed LQMs into existing workflows
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring ML engineers, computational chemists, and research scientists to maintain technical lead

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes inclusion, service leadership, and fearlessness. Described as “the most humble player in the AQ industry” with a growth mindset.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Flexible work environment; home office stipend and connectivity stipend provided; regular offsites for collaboration.
- **Benefits**: Best-in-class medical, dental, vision; 100% paid maternity/paternity leave; 401k with company match; wellness stipend; learning & development programs; flexible time off including winter break and volunteering days.
- **Engineering Culture**: Hands-on work at the frontier of AI and quantum; cross-disciplinary teams (physics, chemistry, neuroscience, cryptography); opportunity to publish research and attend conferences.
- **Growth Opportunities**: Residency program for early-career scientists; stock options; clear career progression in a fast-growing late-stage startup.

## Sources
1. [sandboxaq.com](https://www.sandboxaq.com/)
2. [sandboxaq.com/company/about-us](https://www.sandboxaq.com/company/about-us)
3. [sandboxaq.com/careers](https://www.sandboxaq.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/sandboxaq](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sandboxaq)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sandboxaq](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sandboxaq)

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