UX Engineer

Who we are.

Reality Defender is an award-winning cybersecurity company helping enterprises and governments detect deepfakes and AI-generated media. Utilizing a patented multi-model approach, Reality Defender is robust against the bleeding edge of generative platforms producing video, audio, imagery, and text media. Reality Defender's API-first deepfake detection platform empowers teams and developers alike to identify fraud, disinformation campaigns, and harmful deepfakes in real time.

Backed by world class investors including DCVC, Illuminate Financial, Y Combinator, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, Accenture, Rackhouse, and Argon VC, Reality Defender works with leading enterprise clients, financial institutions, and governments in order to ensure AI-generated media is not used for malicious purposes.

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The UX Engineer Role.

This isn't a traditional product designer role, and it isn't a traditional front-end engineering role either. We're looking for someone who can move seamlessly from customer problems to interaction design to production-ready prototypes — the connective tissue between product strategy, design, and engineering. Responsibilities include:

• Own end-to-end UX design and rapid prototyping for new product initiatives, from concept through implementation-ready design

• Build interactive, near-production-quality prototypes using React, TypeScript, or similar frameworks to validate ideas before full engineering investment

• Partner with Engineering to validate technical feasibility early and reduce handoff friction

• Help establish and evolve reusable UI patterns, components, and Reality Defender's broader design system

• Advocate for usability, accessibility, and thoughtful interaction design across the platform

• Work alongside Product Managers to define customer experiences before development begins

• Facilitate cross-team alignment by making complex ideas tangible through prototypes and visual storytelling

Who you are.

• 5+ years designing and building modern SaaS applications

• Strong portfolio demonstrating both UX design and front-end implementation

• Expertise with Figma and modern prototyping tools

• Experience building interfaces using React, TypeScript, or similar front-end frameworks

• Strong understanding of interaction design, usability, and accessibility

• Ability to rapidly move from concept to prototype

• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, and comfort in a fast-moving startup environment

• Nice to have: enterprise software design experience, AI or cybersecurity product experience, familiarity with design systems and component libraries, user research/usability testing experience, or motion/interaction animation experience

Within 1 month, you’ll…

• Be embedded within Product and Engineering workflows

• Be up to speed on Reality Defender's current design system, tooling, and prototyping stack

• Have shadowed the existing design-to-development handoff processWithin 3 months, you’ll…

Within 3 months, you’ll…

• Have delivered prototypes for at least one key product initiative

• Have shipped a concrete improvement to the design-to-development handoff process

• Have identified specific opportunities to streamline UX across the platform

Within 6 months, you’ll…

• Have a repeatable design and prototyping process running

• Have measurably reduced iteration time on at least one product initiative

• Have contributed meaningfully to the evolution of the design system

What we offer.

Reality Defender offers the following benefits to all our employees, regardless of location:

• Healthcare plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and partial coverage available for dependents

• Dental and Vision plans with 100% premium coverage for employees and their dependents

• Short/Long-term disability and life insurance plans with 100% premium coverage for employees

• FSA/HSA and 401k programs

• Equity compensation

• 20 days of PTO per year

• 12 weeks of Parental Leave

• Learning and Development budget

• Monthly wellness benefits

• Annual company-sponsored offsite

For employees working from Reality Defender’s HQ in NYC, we offer the following benefits:

• Daily in-office lunch through UberEats

• Commuter benefits

• Remote Fridays

• Happy Hours and other local events