Senior Front End Engineer @ AI Co-Pilot Startup

Position: Senior Front End Engineer

Location: Palo Alto, CA (In-person Mon/Tues/Thurs/Fri)

Compensation: $150K–$180K 0.25% – 0.75% equity

Our client is building an AI platform for inside sales and counter reps in the industrial distribution industry. Their platform helps reps quote faster, close more business, and improve margins — all while delivering a superior customer experience.

They are a well-funded, post-YC (S24) startup with strong early traction and growing customer demand. Their goal is to modernize a massive industry that has historically been underserved by software.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build polished, performant UIs from Figma designs
• Collaborate with product design and customer success to prototype and iterate on user-facing features
• Own front-end quality, accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
• Work closely with backend engineers and AI APIs to deliver full-stack functionality
• Help define front-end stack, architecture, and conventions
• Contribute to core product thinking — especially around UI/UX and data visualization
• Move fast and prioritize learning — they ship real product to real users every week

Qualifications:

• Strong front-end engineering experience (React or similar; ideally TypeScript)
• Pixel-perfect attention to detail and a deep appreciation for great UX
• Strong grasp of CSS, layout, responsiveness, and componentization
• Comfort working with APIs, edge cases, and real-world product constraints
• Ability to own projects end-to-end — design handoff to production
• In-person collaboration mindset — you enjoy working shoulder-to-shoulder with design, engineering, and go-to-market

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with LLM-enabled product experiences
• Experience working in vertical SaaS or high-stakes enterprise tools
• Background in testing, performance optimization, or animation
• Exposure to early-stage, fast-shipping environments

Tech Stack

• Typescript, React, Next, Mongo

How They Work

• This is an in-person role based in Palo Alto.
• They work in office Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
• Wednesdays are remote.
• Every engineer at their company is an individual contributor writing production code.
• They prioritize speed, accountability, and strong cross-functional collaboration.

Why Join

You’ll be joining our client at a formative stage — with real traction, real customers, and a huge market in need of transformation. This is an opportunity to help shape the product, the codebase, and the company’s future.

What Makes Our Client Different

• Real AI, real users — They’re not building AI theater. Their product is used by hard-working sales reps solving complex quoting problems every day.
• Design-led culture — Product design is crisp, thoughtful, and first-class. You’ll work from clean Figma files with a strong design partner.
• Tight customer feedback loops — They talk to users every week and ship based on real workflows and pain points.
• High agency, in-person — They believe the best ideas happen at the whiteboard. They work together in their Palo Alto office and move quickly.
• Massive vertical, clear ROI — Their customers close more deals and make more margin using their platform. That’s the kind of impact you’ll be driving