Staff Frontend Engineer (Design Systems & UX)

About Deep Origin

Deep Origin is a biotech startup building an operating system for science that transforms how life science research is conducted. Led by Michael Antonov, co-founder of Oculus, and backed by Formic Ventures, we are redefining the infrastructure behind modern drug discovery. Our AI-driven platform enables scientists to accelerate discovery, reduce cost, and bring breakthrough innovations to life faster. As we scale, engineering excellence is a critical lever in advancing our mission to dramatically reduce disease and extend human healthspan.

Role Description

This is a Staff-level frontend engineering role for someone with strong product and UX judgment. You'll architect and ship the front-end systems behind an operating system for science, while helping define whether the product is actually good to use, not just functional. We don't have a dedicated product design team, so frontend engineers play a direct role in shaping interaction design, usability, and product quality. We want an engineer who can look at a complex scientific workflow, identify what is unclear or inefficient, propose a better direction, and ship high-quality product UI in close collaboration with the team.

As a Staff engineer you set technical direction for the front end: component architecture, the design system, state management patterns, performance budgets, and the standards that keep the codebase coherent as the team and product grow. You also bring strong product and UX judgment to how our tools look, feel, and behave across drug discovery tools, simulation interfaces, data explorers, and research workflows. In this role, frontend architecture and product UX are tightly connected: you help define the point where design quality meets production code. You raise the team's craft through architecture, shared patterns, code review, pairing, and pragmatic product judgment, helping the team ship interfaces that are coherent, usable, and technically sound.