Founding Engineer
Moda · San Francisco, California ·
- Category
- Software engineering
Most design tools bolt AI onto old workflows. We’re building one where the AI actually does the design work.
Moda is building an AI-native design tool that turns a prompt into fully editable, on-brand visual assets on a real canvas. Slides, social posts, one-pagers, PDFs, diagrams, UI designs — instead of bolting AI onto traditional design software, we’re building a system where an AI agent can generate and edit real visuals on your behalf, while keeping everything editable and under your control.
For this role, we’re looking for a generalist engineer who’s excited to work across product, graphics, and AI. It’s completely fine if you lean more backend, frontend, ML, or systems. What matters is that you like owning hard problems end to end and moving with urgency.
Some of the things you might work on:
Contributing core product features across our Python backend and TypeScript frontend
Building our rendering engine and canvas stack (WebGPU)
Architecting AI agents for design generation and editing, plus maintaining eval and RL pipelines
Technical tooling, infrastructure, and internal AI systems that help us move 10x faster
You:
Have shipped products used by a lot of people
Are able to operate independently and with high urgency
Care about product quality and user experience, not just technical elegance
(Bonus) Have started a company or joined one very early
A note on seniority: We care much more about slope than y-intercept and are open to a broad range of backgrounds and experience levels.
Why us?
You’ll be working on a genuinely new product category at the intersection of AI, graphics, and design software. Teams are already using Moda to create on-brand assets in minutes instead of days, and in some cases replace contractors entirely. The team is small and will stay small, so every engineer has outsized ownership and direct influence on the product and company. You’ll work directly with founders who’ve built companies like Dover and Heap before. We move fast, care deeply about craft, and you’ll ship more in a month here than most engineers ship in a year.