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Parallel is a web infrastructure company that enables leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible programmatic access to the web. The company has raised $230 million from top-tier VCs including Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain, and is currently valued at $2 billion.
In this Design Engineer role, you will shape and build interactive experiences across Parallel's website, product, and special projects. Your work will span refining everyday interactions and motion to creating visual essays, data visualizations, launch pages, and minisites. You'll collaborate closely with designers, marketers, and engineers from initial concept through production, prototyping possible directions, contributing to the core website, and perfecting details in the browser. You'll also build reusable components and patterns to accelerate future project delivery.
Parallel's design philosophy centers on creating for a web used by both people and agents, grounding work in real code, data, and evidence. The team draws from the history of the web, computing, and publishing to explain what comes next, while leaving room for experimentation and craft-driven work.
The team works fully in-person between Palo Alto HQ and the San Francisco office. Parallel is a flat, talent-dense organization focused on solving technical and creative problems with big outcomes. Core values include owning customer impact, obsessing over craft, accelerating change, creating win-wins, and making high-conviction bets.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- You are a design engineer or frontend engineer with strong design instincts
- Your work demonstrates care for typography, layout, and the timing and feel of interactions
- You have shipped working websites and can articulate the decisions you made
- You are comfortable with modern frontend and animation libraries and know when to build custom solutions
- You move quickly in prototypes and carry that work through to responsive, accessible, performant sites
