Frontend Engineer -- AI Product

About Sobek AI and the Role

Sobek AI is building the secure nervous system for life-sciences innovation networks and intergovernmental emergency response. Backed by $10M+ in grants and funding, we partner with globally significant organizations to accelerate mission-critical, distributed workflows with AI—while protecting IP and sensitive public-health data.

We’re looking for a bedrock hire to build out the user experience of our enterprise AI applications. You’ll set the bar for design-system quality, performance, and reliability, turning high-stakes workflows into clear, trustworthy interfaces. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role.

What You’ll Do

• Build core frontend architecture. Lead the design and implementation of data-intensive web apps with a strong focus on accessibility and reliability.
  

• Define and prototype user experience. Take ambiguous, high-stakes workflows from concept to launch. Create wireframes, user flows, and lightweight interactive prototypes to iterate with the team and users before hardening into production.
  

• Establish design systems. Create reusable component libraries with clear documentation and robust UI tests.
  

• Ship real-time, resilient UX. Build interfaces that handle large content, streaming results, and intermittent networks—with graceful error recovery.
  

• Collaborate on API & data contracts. Work with backend teams to define REST/gRPC/streaming semantics, caching, error handling, and retry/backoff behavior that make the UI performant.
  

• Operate at the boundary when needed. Where it accelerates delivery, implement lightweight server routes (TypeScript or Python) to compose services for the UI: auth context, pre-signed uploads/downloads, and server-side streaming.
  

• Instrument and iterate. Wire UX telemetry and user feedback into evaluation loops; partner with AI engineers to improve time-to-insight and reduce cost.
  

• Build for enterprise constraints. Partner on authN/authZ and multi-tenant needs; uphold frontend security hygiene in regulated environments.
  

• Serve as a force multiplier. Drive code reviews and ADRs, and set patterns others can scale.
  

About You

• 5+ years building production frontends in React/TypeScript, with end-to-end ownership of complex product flows.
  

• Strong with data-dense UIs (tables, complex forms, editors) and real-time interactions; comfortable reasoning about performance and accessibility trade-offs.
  

• Strong interaction judgment and a sense for visual quality and information hierarchy.
  

• Experienced integrating REST/gRPC and streaming APIs; you can think clearly about backpressure, partial results, and error semantics.
  

• Comfortable using logs/traces/metrics to diagnose issues across client ↔ server boundaries.
  

• Product-minded and customer-first: comfortable talking with users and instrumenting flows, iterating quickly on outcomes.
  

• Strong frontend security hygiene (safe rendering of untrusted content, file/HTML handling) and an instinct for clarity and trust in high-stakes contexts.
  

Nice to Haves

• Built lightweight server routes/gateways for UI composition (TS or Python).
  

• Familiarity with auth flows (OIDC/SAML), multi-tenant concerns, pre-signed uploads, and secure previews.
  

• Experience with collaborative or compare/diff UX, lineage/visualization, and rich editors.
  

Details

• Compensation: $170K – $230K + meaningful equity for early engineers
  

• Location: Hybrid (Seattle, WA)
  

• Benefits: Company-paid health coverage (including dependents)
  

• Visa: We do not sponsor visas for this role at this time