DesignEngineer

THIS IS CRADLE Proteins are the molecular machines of life, used for many therapeutic, diagnostic, chemical, agricultural and food applications. Designing and optimizing proteins takes a lot of expert knowledge and manual effort, through the use of custom computational and biological tools. Machine learning is revolutionizing this space, by enabling high-fidelity protein models. At Cradle, we offer a software platform for AI-guided discovery and optimization of proteins, so that biologists can design proteins faster and at scale. We are already used by clients across biopharma, biotech, agri-tech, food-tech, and academia. We're an experienced team of around 90 people. We've built many successful products before and have enough funding for multiple years of runway. We are distributed across two main locations, Zurich and Amsterdam, and are focused on building the best possible team culture. We offer our employees a very competitive salary, a generous equity stake in the company and a wide range of benefits and career progression opportunities. WHAT WE'RE BUILDING At Cradle, we're building a platform that lets biologists use machine learning to design and optimize proteins, faster and at scale. Our users are scientists running complex, mission-critical workflows: designing experiments, preparing and reviewing training data, configuring and running ML models, and interpreting results across multiple cycles of iteration. The product surface is unusually rich and fast-moving. Biological sequence data, experiment tracking, model configuration, data preparation pipelines, and dense result exploration views all sit in a single platform, and the underlying ML capabilities keep evolving. The interfaces around them have to evolve just as quickly, in the hands of domain experts who hold a high bar for clarity and craft. We're looking for a Design Engineer to help us build it. ABOUT THE ROLE This is a product role with leverage: you'll work fluidly across UX research, visual des