Product Engineer - User Experience

About Uniflow

Uniflow is building an Artificial Research Intelligence platform — end-to-end autonomous research with full provenance, reproducibility, and proof-backed verification. We're a seed-stage startup with a working execution substrate, verification engine, and pilot studies. The concept is proven; the scale-out needs you.

The Role

As Product Engineer - User Experience, you will own the researcher-facing UX for our Artificial Research Intelligence platform. You'll design and build interactive experiment dashboards, provenance explorers, and paper review interfaces — surfaces that make autonomous research transparent, controllable, and trustworthy.

This is a unique role that combines product thinking with deep technical implementation. You'll translate complex research pipelines into intuitive visual experiences that researchers, postdocs, and PIs actually want to use. The UX isn't an afterthought — it's how humans stay in the loop of autonomous research.

What You'll Own

Research dashboard and experiment monitoring UI — Build the real-time interface that lets researchers observe, pause, steer, and inspect autonomous research runs across multiple experiments.
Provenance explorer and claim-chain visualization — Create the interactive graph that traces every claim back through the verification chain to its underlying data, code, and environment.
Paper review and annotation interfaces — Design the review experience where researchers inspect generated papers, verify citations, annotate findings, and approve results for publication.

What You'll Do

First 90 Days

Understand the execution substrate, provenance model, and research pipeline stages
Design and implement the research dashboard with real-time experiment monitoring
Build core provenance visualization components
Establish the design system foundations (tokens, components, patterns)

First Year

Ship the complete researcher UX integrated with the execution substrate
Build the interactive provenance explorer with drill-down to raw evidence
Implement the paper review interface with inline annotation and citation verification
Create the researcher onboarding experience and documentation

Requirements

Must Have

5+ years building production web applications
Expert TypeScript + React — hooks, context, performance optimization, testing
Strong design sensibility — you can translate requirements into intuitive interfaces
Experience with design systems — building or significantly contributing to one
Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) and inclusive design

Nice to Have

Experience with data visualization (D3, Observable, Vega)
Background in scientific or research tools (lab notebooks, paper management)
Familiarity with graph visualization or provenance/lineage UIs
Knowledge of React Data Router or similar routing patterns
Experience with real-time/collaborative features (WebSockets, CRDTs)

Engineering Principles

We value:

RFCs for big decisions — Architectural choices are documented and reviewed
Reproducibility > speed — We optimize for verifiability and provenance
Provenance + observability as defaults — Every execution path is traceable and reproducible

Why Uniflow

Make autonomous research legible — Build the interfaces that keep humans in the loop of AI-driven discovery. Your work determines whether researchers can trust and control the system.
Research UX that doesn't suck — We believe research tools can be beautiful and intuitive. You'll prove it.
Founding team impact — Shape the UX vision, design system, and component architecture. Early equity participation reflects your role in building the company.

Compensation

Salary: Competitive, based on experience
Equity: Meaningful founding-team equity package
Benefits: Health, dental, vision (Canada)
Location: Hybrid in Toronto (2-3 days/week in-office)

How to Apply

Send your resume and a brief note on why this role interests you to careers@uniflow.tech or apply through our website at uniflow.tech.

Include any relevant:

Portfolio or examples of UI/UX work you've shipped
Design systems you've built or contributed to
Writing about your design or engineering philosophy
Side projects that demonstrate your approach to complex UX problems

Uniflow is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.