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Moondream AI

Head of User Experience

Moondream AI, New York, New York, United States

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Overview

Moondream , a funded Seattle AI startup. We ship a

tiny, fast VLM

that runs anywhere (edge, cloud). We are looking for someone to

own the front end

of the product that lets customers customize/tune the model without being ML experts. Think: data review flows that feel slick (Figma/Vercel vibes), eval dashboards, a stupid-fast playground, and a clean billing/credits UX.

Small team, high autonomy, real users today

(retail, manufacturing, security, etc.). Stack : Next.js, TypeScript, React, Shad/Tailwind, tRPC/Drizzle, SST/AWS. Location:

We’re in Capitol Hill, Seattle; hybrid is fine.

Responsibilities

Own the front end end-to-end

— architecture, component library (shadcn/ui + Tailwind), performance, accessibility, and shipping to prod.

Build the core surfaces : data review / labeling flows, eval dashboards, RL fine-thinking UX, a stupid-fast playground, and clean billing/credits screens.

Define and enforce FE standards : code quality, type safety, testing, design tokens, a11y, performance budgets.

Work tightly with backend

on contracts (tRPC), schemas (Drizzle), and deployment (SST/AWS, edge/SSR).

Instrument everything

— analytics, tracing, feature flags, and experiment frameworks to learn fast.

Prototype quickly

with real users; partner with UX to run lightweight tests and ship improvements continuously.

Mentor & grow a small team

(code reviews, pairing, hiring loop) while staying very hands-on.

Own CI/CD for the web app

(lint/test/build pipelines, preview deploys, error monitoring).

Champion security & authorization in the UI

(RBAC/scope-based perms, safe client patterns).

Qualifications

5+ years

building production web apps with

React, TypeScript, and Next.js

(or equivalent).

Strong product/UX intuition

— you can take a Figma file (or create one) and ship something polished.

Deep familiarity with

performance tuning

(RSC, code-splitting, React Query/Suspense, Web Workers, etc.).

Experience with

typed backends and contracts

(tRPC/GraphQL),

ORMs

(Drizzle/Prisma), and

Postgres .

Comfortable in

SST/AWS , serverless/edge runtimes, and modern CI/CD.

Testing discipline : unit (Vitest/Jest), e2e (Playwright/Cypress), visual/regression as needed.

Accessibility, security, and reliability

aren’t afterthoughts for you.

Bonus: you’ve built

data-heavy tools

(dashboards, labeling/review UIs),

ML/AI tooling , or contributed to OSS.

Seattle-based or willing to work

hybrid

from Capitol Hill.

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