Design Engineer (Intern)

Substrate builds financial infrastructure to grow industrial GDP.

Were hiring a Design Engineering Intern to help make Substrates products look and feel insanely great. Youll work at the intersection of design product copywriting and full-stack engineering shipping 01 experiences that power machine shops farms factories construction contractors and more.

Substrate engineering interns have immense ownership to lead full-stack product cycles end-to-end from customer discovery to production deployment. Youll get to occasionally travel with the founder to factory floors meet Main Street manufacturers and Wall Street lenders face-to-face and build exactly what the field demands.

Given the design complexity of our product and the high degree of ownership we trust interns with weve found engineers typically take 6-8 weeks to fully onboard and lead their own projects. Therefore we strongly prefer candidates who can commit to an 8-month internship. We occasionally make exceptions for those who are truly exceptional.

• You believe in objective good and beauty and you want to bring them to an antiquated predatory industry.

• You believe not all technology is created equal. You dont care about building another enterprise SaaS tool you want to build tools that advance civilization.

• You want to work with people who treat their work as craft who violently reject just good enough and you want to help build that culture.

• Own the full arc: from customer pain UI/UX design prototype shipped product

• Design and build beautiful simple interfaces on top of gnarly complexity and legacy systems

• Write growth-optimized product copy that converts users across the product funnel

• Spin up fast high-fidelity mockups and working prototypes to pressure-test ideas before we build

• Help build a product culture that harmonizes speed taste and customer obsession

• You have serious taste in UI/UX and you can point to interfaces youve designed that prove it

• Youre a great writer

• You love reading about the history of design and artistic styles

• You can spin up fast mockups and demos in Figma Lovable or similar feels like second nature

• You live in design references like Mobbin and move fast with frontier AI design tools like Figr

• is something youd enjoy reading

• You love LLMs and are the kind of person to max out on tokens

• You resonate with our engineering philosophy

If you are interested please apply via Dover AND email with the following (your app wont be considered without these):

• If you could have one persons career arc who would it be and why

• Whats an unpopular truth you believe in

• Whats the most insanely great thing youve ever designed Include a link or video so we can see!

• Availability for a 30min call

Required Experience:

Intern