Design Engineer
The Role
We're looking for a Design Engineer — someone who sits at the intersection of design and frontend engineering. You'll pick up a rough idea, shape it in Figma or directly in code, and ship a polished experience end to end. While product engineers focus on features and infrastructure, you'll own the craft layer: the animations, the micro-interactions, the loading states, the typography — the last 10% that never gets cut.
Beyond shipping UI, you'll bridge our design and frontend teams — building better tooling, workflows, and helping designers become effective vibe coders so prototypes flow seamlessly into production.
What you'll do
Own the quality bar for UI. Identify rough edges, propose fixes, and ship improvements — often autonomously, without waiting for a ticket.
Sweat the details: transitions, easing curves, skeleton states, empty states, error states, responsive behavior, accessibility.
Work with designers from concept to production — skip the traditional handoff, iterate together in Figma and code.
Design and build greenfield surfaces end to end — pages, tools, or experiences that may not be core product but still need to feel like part of it.
Own small QoL improvements from idea to production with minimal or no design input. Sketch it, build it, ship it.
Step in as a designer when the team is overloaded — you're comfortable wearing both hats.
Help designers become effective vibe coders. Build workflows so designer-made prototypes are starting points that engineers or AI agents can actually use.
Create systems for prototype-to-production handoff: structure designer-generated code so it can be fed into agents or integrated by the engineering team.
Translate our Figma design system into our component library, keeping the two in sync.
Contribute to and evolve our design system — tokens, components, patterns, documentation.
You might be a good fit if
You're a frontend engineer with a designer's eye, or a designer who writes production-quality code — either path works. What matters is fluency in both worlds.
You have strong expertise with modern frontend tooling (TypeScript, CI/CD pipelines).
You're proficient in Figma and understand the fundamentals of product design: layout, typography, color, spacing.
You have a strong sense of taste and notice the details others skip.
You're self-directed — you don't wait for a ticket to fix something that's bugging you.
You're excited about AI-assisted workflows and have experimented with agents, LLMs, or vibe coding in your own process.
Nice to have
Experience building or contributing to a design system at scale.
Background in motion design or creative coding (Canvas, WebGL, shaders).
A portfolio, blog, or open-source work that demonstrates your craft.
What is ComfyUI?
ComfyUI is the world’s leading visual AI platform — an open, modular system where anyone can build, customize, and automate AI workflows with precision and full control.
Unlike most AI tools that hide their inner workings behind a simple prompt box, ComfyUI gives professionals the freedom to design their own pipelines — connecting models, tools, and logic visually like building blocks.
It’s used by artists, filmmakers, video game creators, designers, researchers, VFX houses, and among others, teams at OpenAI, Netflix, Amazon Studios, Ubisoft, EA, and Tencent — all who want to go beyond presets and truly shape how AI creates.
ComfyUI empowers those who were not trained with the power of the brush to also be a painter, and those who are, to be a maestro.
Built for users who value transparency and control Infinitely extensible — thousands of community-made nodes and integrations
Scales from creative experimentation to production automation
Open-source, used by millions, and backed by one of the most active AI communities online
Evolving to democratize visual AI creation: empowering everyone from hobbyists to studios, storytellers, and enterprises to be more productive and creative than ever before
ComfyUI isn’t just another AI app. It’s aiming to become the operating system for visual generative AI , the foundation on which the next generation of creative tools are being built.
An creative’s show case of how Comfy is adopted in their work
About Us
We are a small, intense, and well-funded team in San Francisco who push ComfyUI and its ecosystem forward. Our team comes from Stability AI and Google and many contributed to the ComfyUI ecosystem way before working here.
Our organization is flat and there is no hierarchy, only categories: dev, arts, prod, ops, etc (and no, there is no one here with the title of Member of Technical Staff, it’s long and silly for a job title).
The only thing that matters is the quality of your cultural fit and execution. We work hard and demand a lot of each other. But we have fun: everyone is here to make something meaningful that will end up being our life’s work. If this mission excites you and you view yourself as a top-tier talent, your future latent self is waiting for you at Comfy.
Check out our Github and blog for what we’ve been working on. Our investors include Pace Capital, Chemistry, Abstract Venture, and Guillermo Rauch.