Lead Design Engineer (Remote)

About us

Ambush is an AI company developing AI research & products that accelerate onchain adoption. We’re building Web3’s first autonomous AI agents to simplify wealth creation & onchain safety.

We’re a lean & hyper performance-oriented team; we are competitive, we like moving fast, and we run head-first towards seemingly impossible ideas. Our entire team is crypto-native & we have a shared North Star of solving web3’s hardest challenges.

Our team is led by one of crypto’s prominent anons, Psycho.

About the role:

We’re hiring a lead design engineer with a proven track record designing & building software with a high level of polish. You will play a major role in all things design at Ambush.

This will be an exciting role for anyone who wants to own the design & product experience from 0 to 1, as you will be one of the key drivers behind building our consumer products & brand.

We deeply care about building a world-class design experience, so you will be given creative space and autonomy as our trusted design lead.

This role may be a good fit for you if:

• You enjoy high ownership of key design decisions across product & brand


• You prefer working on smaller teams with high autonomy & less predictability


• You are a design generalist & like to always work on new things

This role might not be a good fit for you if:

• You like collaborating with a large team of designers & frontend engineers


• You like working on established & predictable roadmaps / product specs


• You like working in a single lane.This role comes with ownership across multiple initiatives in the company including marketing, branding, & product decisions.

Requirements:

• Crypto-native with prior experience building & designing web3 products


• Senior level frontend development skills, fully comfortable as a frontend engineer


• Prior experience with building performant and high availability applications


• Our tech stack: Next.js (App Router), Typescript, Tailwind, Framer Motion, AWS, viem

Why join Ambush?

• Industry leading pay: strong base salary + uncapped profit share + equity


• Lean & high-impact team; we hate bureaucracy & will not grow past ~10 people


• One of the fastest growing AI companies in crypto


• Proven leadership team with several acquisitions under their belt

Internal full-time hires only, no contractors or agencies.