Front End (UX) Design Engineer at Obin AI – New York, New York

What We're Building Obin AI builds AI agents that automate or assist core workflows in the financial services industry. We’re already working with some of the world’s largest financial services firms with sponsorship from senior leadership.
The Role:
We're hiring for a UX Design Engineer who can bridge the gap between creating new design (Figma / AI prototyping) and implementing intuitive, functional interfaces. This is a hybrid role for a designer who codes—someone who can not only envision the user journey, but jumps into the frontend (React) to implement. You’ll join our team as one of our earliest hires, working directly with the founders (ex-Google) and other AI Engineers.
You’ll be:

• Building a Scalable Design System Own the creation and maintenance of our visual language for our applications. You’ll build a reusable component library that balances aesthetic excellence with the functional requirements of data-heavy financial applications.
• Translating Customer Pain Points into Prototypes Work directly with stakeholders at major financialfirms to map out their current manual workflows. You will transform these insights into interactive prototypes that demonstrate clear product value.
• Bridging Visual Design and AI Logic Work closely with other AI Engineers to translate complex LLM outputs and RAG-driven data into clean, high-fidelity visual components. You’ll ensure that sophisticated technical backend logic feels simple and trustworthy to the end user.
• Leveraging Agentic Tools for Development Integrate AI-assisted development into your daily process to accelerate frontend delivery.
• Setting Design-Engineering Standards As the founding design engineer hire, you will define how Obin bridges design and frontend engineering. You’ll set the bar for our user experience (UX).

We believe the best products are built by people who can operate across the full stack of the user experience, combining a sharp eye for detail with the technical ability to ship it.
Experience Required:

• 5–10 years of experience in UX/Product Design with a deep expertise in Frontend Engineering.
• Strong intuition and great taste in building trustworthy UX for enterprise users
• Hands-on experience using AI-powered coding agents to build and deploy production-ready code.
• Direct experience building user interfaces for AI/ML products, specifically handling challenges like streaming text, multi-step agent reasoning, and model transparency.
• Strong visual design skills coupled with the ability to translate those designs into responsive code.
• Hunger to iterate fast and own outcomes—you’d rather ship a functional feature and quickly iterate to solve for friction than spend a week debating different choices.
• Clear communication, especially when bridging the gap between design intent and technical constraints.

Bonus:

• Experience with user research and UX evaluation.
• Background in Fintech, credit systems, or enterprise risk management tools.
• Experience building custom internal tools or "agent playgrounds" to help AI engineers evaluate model outputs visually.

$130,000 - $180,000 *depending upon experience
Obin AI’s Vision: Private credit is a $1T+ market—and its inefficiencies are holding back small businesses from growing. We’re building the system that unlocks fast, scalable lending decisions—starting with AI agents and expanding into the core infra for private capital markets and other financial services. About Us: Obin is reimagining financial workflows with AI-powered agents.We're building the future of AI-driven financial services. Join our team of innovators and help shape the next generation of intelligent financial systems. Obin is a rare opportunity: real traction, real revenue, and a chance to rewire a trillion-dollar market. If you're excited to build agentic AI systems that change how capital flows in the real world—we’d love to meet you.