Product Design Engineer - Audio

Stability AI
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

Best suited to mid-level design engineers with audio/music domain expertise working in a remote, cross-functional team environment.

Best fit for

  • Design engineers who thrive at the intersection of UI development and creative tool design.
    — “lives at the intersection of design and code”
  • Candidates who can rapidly prototype and polish audio product experiences.
    — “prototype, build, and polish the experiences”
  • Front-end specialists with production-grade React/TypeScript skills and animation expertise.
    — “strong front-end engineering skills: React, TypeScript, Next.js, CSS, animations”

Things to consider

  • Expect deep collaboration with audio research teams on product direction.
    — “Work with product, engineering, and audio research”
  • Portfolio review will assess design thinking and collaboration process.
    — “present examples of your design work”

How to stand out

  • Showcase projects where you elevated a prototype from 90% to 100% polish.
    — “know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%”
  • Highlight experience building component libraries that accelerated team velocity.
    — “Build design systems and component libraries”
  • Demonstrate familiarity with audio workflows through DAW or plugin examples.
    — “Familiarity with DAWs, MIDI, Web Audio”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Mid

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • build production-quality UI components
  • own the quality of UI across audio products
  • work with product, engineering, and audio research
Typical background
strong front-end engineering skillssharp eye for detail

Skills & requirements

Required

Ui/ux DesignFront-end EngineeringReactTypeScriptCSSAnimations

Preferred

Experience Building Creative ToolsFormal Design Training

Stack & domain

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsCSSAnimationsAudioMusic

About the role

Original posting from Stability AI

Stability AI is the enterprise-ready partner for teams and creators, delivering professional-grade generative AI products and solutions across audio, image, video, and 3D.

In August 2022, we released Stable Diffusion and sparked the generative AI revolution. Since then, Stable Diffusion models have been downloaded over 350 million times, becoming the technical backbone for an entire ecosystem of creators.

We’ve always built for creatives first. Now that’s expanded beyond the models themselves into products and solutions designed around how creative people actually work across music, gaming, entertainment, and marketing. Our artist-centric approach is why Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP, and others have chosen us as their strategic partner.

Stability AI is recognized among Fortune's 50 AI Innovators and TIME's Most Influential Companies, with Stable Audio on TIME's Best Inventions list. We are led by CEO Prem Akkaraju, Executive Chairman Sean Parker, and board members James Cameron, Dana Settle, and Thomas Laffont. Our work is backed by world-class investors including Coatue, Eric Schmidt, Greycroft, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Prem Akkaraju, Sean Parker, Sound Ventures, and more.

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 Product Design Engineer - Audio

Stability AI is a community- and mission-driven, open artificial intelligence company that cares deeply about real-world implications and applications. Our most considerable advances grow from our diversity in working across multiple teams and disciplines. We are unafraid to go against established norms and explore creativity. We are motivated to generate breakthrough ideas and convert them into tangible solutions. Our vibrant communities consist of experts, leaders, and partners across the globe who are developing cutting-edge open AI models for Image, Audio, Video, and 3D.

About the role

We're looking for a Design Engineer who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll work closely with our Audio team to prototype, build, and polish the experiences that make our audio product suite feel effortless, taking ideas from initial sketches to shipped interactions. This role is perfect for someone who thinks like a designer and can build like an engineer.

Responsibilities 

Build production-quality UI components and interactions that delight musicians and producers

Rapidly prototype new concepts to test ideas before committing to a full build

Own the quality of UI across our suite of audio products — pixel-perfect execution and interactions that feel great in an artist'shands

Work with product, engineering, and audio research  to figure out what's possible and shape where the product goes

Build design systems and component libraries that help the whole team ship faster across desktop, web, plugin, and mobile

Qualifications 

You're equally comfortable in Figma and your code editor

You have strong front-end engineering skills: React, TypeScript, Next.js, CSS, animations

You have a sharp eye for detail and care deeply about craft

You've shipped polished products and know what it takes to get from 90% to 100%

You move fast — prototyping ideas in hours, not days

You think in systems, not one-off screens

You're genuinely excited about AI and want to help define how the future of creative tools works

Nice to have

Experience building creative tools, audio or music software, or other complex products

A design background or formal design training

Experience with plugins, native UI frameworks (SwiftUI, JUCE, Tauri), or shipping cross-platform apps

Familiarity with DAWs, MIDI, Web Audio, or music production

Interview Process

As part of the interview process, you'll be asked to present examples of your design work and participate in a design review. We're interested in understanding your design thinking, decision-making process, and how you collaborate to solve complex product challenges.

Equal Employment Opportunity: We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.

Source: Stability AI careers

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