Designer

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING: We have been quietly building the foundational layers of our Physical AI Scientist platform: 🤖 Physical AI that can operate scientific instruments with human-level dexterity. 🧪 Scientific AI that can analyze results, reason about next steps, and close the loop autonomously. This is an incredibly ambitious mission, but we believe that a team of ambitious people with high ownership can accomplish incredible things. THE TEAM: - We're a team of passionate, mission-driven engineers and scientists from companies like Tesla, Amazon, SpaceX, and Neuralink. We're collaborative and love moving fast, both with our product and on team trips skiing or go-karting! - As a team, we love nerding out about engineering and robotics — plus other topics like race cars or cooking. We like learning new things and then sharing our new knowledge with each other. - Our team is opinionated and straightforward. We don't mind intense discussions about design tradeoffs. If we have arguments or miscommunication, we resolve conflicts quickly and empathetically. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL: - Be the first Product Designer and define our design practice from the ground up. - Conduct research with scientists to understand workflows, motivations, and mental models. - Turn insights into simple, elegant user flows and polished UI that customers love. - Prototype rapidly to validate ideas. - Collaborate deeply with engineers to ship high-quality experiences in small iterations. - Build foundational UX patterns and a lightweight design system for speed and consistency. LET'S TALK IF YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH: - Conducting user research and interviews to develop empathy for our customers, including an understanding of their pain points, goals and objectives and usability concerns - Quickly iterating to problem-solve, prototype and test new designs and solutions with Engineering, Product and small, nimble cross-functional teams - Driving clarity by effectively communicating design assets and building empathy for our customers among stakeholders - Working with scrappy teams, ship skateboards not cars (OPTIONAL) BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE: - Interest and experience in robotics WHAT WE OFFER - An opportunity to change the way that scientific research happens - Fast-paced, creative, and collaborative work environment - Significant equity ownership - 401k - Medical insurance and dental Insurance - Unlimited PTO - Weekday dinners This position is 100% in-person, you must be able to come on-site to our San Francisco office. We offer relocation benefits for applicants who need to relocate. Medra is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other characteristics protected by state, federal or local law or our other policies. We value diversity at Medra and welcome applications from those who are traditionally underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this position but are not sure if you are the perfect fit, please apply!