Front End Engineer

Build and maintain responsive, performant interfaces for SENTIENT OS and AERIS: consoles, dashboards, configuration and control UIs

Implement components, layout systems, and interaction patterns in a modern framework (React/Next.js or equivalent)

Integrate front-end with back-end APIs and data sources alongside the core engineering team

Keep the codebase modular and reusable through a component library, clear state management, and clean architecture

What you’ll do when you get here: Front-End Development Build and maintain responsive, performant interfaces for SENTIENT OS and AERIS: consoles, dashboards, configuration and control UIs

Implement components, layout systems, and interaction patterns in a modern framework (React/Next.js or equivalent)

Integrate front-end with back-end APIs and data sources alongside the core engineering team

Keep the codebase modular and reusable through a component library, clear state management, and clean architecture

UX/UI Design and Interaction Turn product concepts and operator workflows into interfaces people can use under pressure

Produce user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups

Design interaction models for complex system state: alerts, timelines, mission views, sensor and device status, configuration flows

Run lightweight usability validation through internal demos and fast feedback cycles, then iterate on real usage

Brand, Visual Language, and Design System Define, maintain, and evolve Sentient's visual guidelines: typography, color, spacing, iconography, and motion

Build and maintain one shared design system and component library used across the web site, internal OS, software products, internal tools, and print collateral

Hold visual consistency across digital and physical surfaces, refining the guidelines as the product family grows

Create and manage graphic assets, icons, diagrams, visual metaphors, data visualizations, that hold up on screen and in print

Digital + Print Collateral Own templates for spec sheets, product one-pagers, pamphlets, business cards, banners, and event leave-behinds

Produce print-ready files with correct bleed, margins, resolution, and color space, and coordinate with print vendors on proofs

Turn engineering data, specifications, performance curves, interface drawings, into clear, accurate customer-facing sheets

Keep a versioned library of current collateral so business development always pulls the approved file

Website and Marketing Surface Own the front-end of the marketing website: layout, navigation, responsiveness, and performance

Ship new pages and sections for product launches, use cases, and documentation

Work with leadership on content structure and information hierarchy so the product narrative reads clearly

Hold the website to the same design system and brand standards as the products

Collaboration and Process Work directly with the founder/CTO and core engineering team so UI decisions match product architecture and real system capability

Translate technical constraints and system behavior into visual affordances and useful user feedback

Establish lightweight process, design reviews, component documentation, PR guidelines, that keeps the front-end clean as the team scales

Advocate for the user in a highly technical, mission-driven environment

This is an Austin, TX-based position. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are not available. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship and either reside in the Austin area or be willing to relocate at their own expense.

Requirements Strong front-end engineering with modern JavaScript and a major framework (React/Next.js or equivalent)

Demonstrable UX/UI work: web apps, dashboards, or other complex interfaces

Solid visual design foundation: layout, typography, color, composition, iconography

Experience creating or maintaining a design system or component library

Ability to produce graphic assets, icons, diagrams, illustrations, without a separate designer

Experience designing for print or export-ready print/PDF assets: spec sheets, one-pagers, brochures, business cards, with working knowledge of bleed, margins, resolution, and color spaces

Comfortable with APIs, data structures, system behavior

Clear communication with technical stakeholders, and the judgment to turn loose requirements into usable UI and accurate collateral

Must be able to pass a federal background check

Preferred Qualifications Interfaces for complex operational domains: defense, industrial, robotics, or energy

Data visualization and real-time interfaces

Documentation sites, developer platforms, or admin consoles

Git-centric workflows

Familiarity with export-control or markings requirements on customer-facing material

Benefits Comprehensive Healthcare Plan Options (Employee-paid)

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

Direct ownership of every surface a customer, evaluator, or operator ever sees

Short path from idea to shipped: no design-by-committee, no layers between you and the founder/CTO and CEO

Hardware and software that goes to the field, not to a slide

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