Senior Design Engineer — Product Experience

Job description

Tacto builds AI-powered software for strategic procurement teams in manufacturing. Our product is evolving fast: we're introducing agentic capabilities that handle larger units of work autonomously - and come back to users when decisions are needed or results are ready. That shift demands a new kind of interface. Not just new screens, but new patterns for how humans and AI agents collaborate. And those patterns need to be built, not just designed. As a Design Engineer, you deeply understand a problem, then design, build, and ship a solution - often autonomously. You contribute directly to the codebase: building features end to end, crafting polished interactions, and ensuring that what ships feels as good as it works. You think like a designer and build like an engineer. You'll join a small design team and work embedded with engineering squads to ship product. Why this role matters: Engineering velocity at Tacto is high. Features move from idea to production fast - AI-assisted development is the default. That speed is a strength, but it creates a real challenge: the gap between what's designed and what's shipped keeps growing, interactions get neglected, and polish falls through th...