Founding Design Engineer

Overview

FLORA is an applied AI HCI company building the world’s most powerful creative tools. FLORA combines all of the best creative AI models in one Figma-like infinite canvas. Models can be linked together for moodboarding, concepting, or to create and automate entire creative workflows.

We’re proudly backed by a16z Games, Long Journey Ventures (SpaceX, Niantic), Menlo Ventures (Uber, Anthropic), Comma Capital, Matthew Hartman (Huggingface), Coho Deeptech, Embedding VC, Vipul Prakash (CEO of Together AI), Andrew Tan (Builder's Capital) and angels from Facebook AI Research Lab, Midjourney, Notion, Stability and more.

We’re looking to bring on a Founding Design Engineer to bring our designs to life. As part of the founding team, you will work closely with the Founders (Weber and Alex) and our Founding Designer (Ethan) to build FLORA, thinking from first principles how we should interact with creative tools in a generative age.

Requirements

• Deep expertise with React, JavaScript/Typescript, HTML, CSS and modern front-end build systems (Webpack, ES6, etc).

• Experience with building, maintaining, and working within robust design systems.

• Experience designing and building rich, interactive apps and interfaces with exceptional attention to detail.

• Ideally have worked with production JavaScript / Node backends.

• Proficient with HCI, UI, and UX design principles

• Experience with 2D browser-based interface animation and popular libraries and frameworks (GSAP, P5.js, Framer Motion, Lottie). Additional experience with 3D animation tools and/or languages (WebGL, GLSL, Three.js, Spline) is a plus.

• Familiar with ML-powered tools with user-friendly interfaces.

• Experience with modern design & prototyping tools (Figma, Framer, Origami)

• Experience working collaboratively with designers

• 5+ years experience

About

FLORA was founded out of creative technology art projects at NYU ITP, a graduate program where we use technology to make art (the same program as Runway). We started FLORA because current AI creative tools are built by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative. We are obsessed with building a power tool for creative professionals, not a toy for generating AI slop. Our mission at FLORA is to make it possible to speak your ideas into existence with a high degree of creative control. We are an applied HCI company obsessed with making cutting-edge technology intuitive for creatives, founded out of a desire to make better tools for our own art projects as creative technologists.

We’re looking for Picassos: creatively-minded individuals willing to invent new perspectives regardless of any notion of what art currently is, in favor of what art could be. Every person on our team is both highly effective and highly creative. Working at FLORA will exercise both the left and right sides of your brain.

FLORA is a team of designers, engineers, creative technologists, and musicians. We are an in-person team based in Brooklyn and we're rooted in the NYC art & technology scene. We regularly attend and host art & technology events, meetups, hackathons, and parties such as the FLORA Launch Party.