Design Engineer

Remote: yes Posted: 2026-05-08

WHAT WE DO

Rillet serves accounting and finance teams, the financial brains of their companies. Our job is to help them run the numbers with impossible speed, accuracy, and insight.

Rillet is the Agentic ERP built for modern finance teams. We help companies automate the most critical parts of finance, from closing the books and recognizing revenue to consolidating entities and reporting to investors. More than 600 companies run on Rillet, including Mercor, Scribe, and Function Health, and we partner with leading accounting firms including EY and KPMG.

We’re building in one of the largest software markets in the world, with the momentum to match. Rillet has raised more than $200M, is valued at $1B, and is backed by Sequoia, a16z, ICONIQ, Bain Capital Ventures, Oak HC/FT, and other leading investors. We’re using that backing to build the financial infrastructure for the next generation of companies and help every business run its numbers at the speed of AI.

- Build product features, internal tools, and prototypes that apply AI to practical problems. Work could include finding relevant financial records, automating a repetitive task, or helping someone review an agent's proposed actions.

- Get close to the people using what you build. Understand the task, identify friction, and test whether your idea makes their work easier.

- Try new models, tools, and ways of building. Bring back working examples and a clear view of where they could be useful at Rillet.

- Make AI features clear and usable. Design interactions that help people understand an answer, inspect its sources, and stay in control of what happens next.

- Work with experienced engineers and accounting experts to test behavior, catch failures, and turn promising work into reliable software. Follow through after release and improve it based on use and feedback.

Who We're Looking For

- You're creative in how you solve problems. You draw inspiration from unexpected places and build alternatives to see whether there's a better way.

- You have taste and can explain your choices. You notice what makes an interface feel clear, considered, and satisfying, and bring that care to what you build. You don't need a formal design background.

- You're already building with AI. Show us an app, agent, automation, or experiment you made, why you built it, and what surprised you. You have opinions about the tools you use because you've pushed them.

- You have solid coding fundamentals. You can get a working application off the ground, connect it to an API, and investigate why something broke. You use AI to move faster and can explain, test, and improve the code it produces.

- You notice what makes a product good. You can point to an interaction you made clearer or easier to use and explain the choices behind it. You don't need a formal design background.

- You take initiative and keep learning. You can tell us about something you wanted to build before you knew how, how you figured it out, and when you sought help.

- You respond well to feedback. You share work while it's still rough, ask good questions, and can show how someone else's perspective improved the result.

The expected base salary range for this role is $170,000–$240,000 in New York City and San Francisco. Final compensation within this range will depend on factors including skills, experience, qualifications, and the scope of the role. This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.