Founding Design Engineer

About BoWatt

BoWatt is building agentic requirements and systems engineering software for manufacturing . We believe AI will reach PhD-level engineering capability within the next 10 years . This will unlock massive value across complex manufacturing industries. Cars. Planes. Rockets. Factories. Chips. Medical devices. All will be engineered with agents.

We bootstrapped BoWatt to €500k+ ARR before raising our first round. BoWatt is backed by tier-1 investors , including Atlantic Foodlabs, Buildery (CDTM affiliates), and Prequel Ventures, along with angels from Cohere and Luminovo.

You’ll join a small team of startup builders focused on speed, ownership, and execution . Over half the team are former founders , with backgrounds across DeepTech AI, gaming, and other startups. We’ve studied and worked at institutions and companies including Stanford, TUM, Google, EA , and YC-backed AI startups .

The role

• You will define and implement our design system together with the product team and improve the overall UI/UX of our platform.
• You will work closely with product to design beautiful user experiences for upcoming features.
• You will build and ship features across our React / TypeScript / Tailwind frontend.
• You will own your work, collaborate closely with the team (product, engineering and customer success) and continuously improve our app.

You

• Are an engineer turned designer, or vice versa, or always have been the one on the team understanding the value of easy-to-use interfaces.
• Have 3+ years of experience shipping frontend production code.
• Have 3+ years of experience designing for the web.
• Have a portfolio of projects that show your product sense and design taste.
• May have some interest in upskilling into backend development.
• Are based in Germany and have the right to work here.

What we offer

• Competitive salary based on experience (€65,000 - €100,000)
• Equity in the company (0.5 - 1%)
• Fully remote, hybrid, or onsite? Up to you.
• 25 vacation days per year plus public holidays
• Top-tier hardware, as well as any other tools of your choice

Interview process

1. 30min Screening call
2. 1.5-2hr Product Interview (CTO + CPO)
3. 1hr Culture fit interview (CEO + CPO)
4. Offer and reference checks

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