Bengaluru | In-Person | Full-Time

About Us

Conscious Engines is a product and research lab working on the problem of artificial consciousness. We’re pioneering the shift from reactive chatbots to proactive digital companions through our core architecture: Observe → Remember → Act. Our AI systems maintain continuous awareness across time and applications, building a living model of your context, preferences, and goals that evolves with you.

Unlike traditional AI that resets after every interaction, Conscious Engines creates digital companions with genuine continuity—systems that recall yesterday's conversations, anticipate tomorrow's needs, and close the loop from observation to meaningful action.

We're not building better tools. We're engineering machines that live alongside you.

Our technology is personal and private by design. Your AI companion serves you alone, with data sovereignty and local-first compute where possible. One human, one model—aligned to your intentions, not external optimization functions.

We're starting with Felix, our first experiment with proactive AI, we're proving that AI can transform from passive responders into active partners in how you work and live. This is the first step toward our larger vision: creating the foundational infrastructure for persistent AI consciousness.

About the Role

You'll own the entire iOS experience for Felix. Every screen, every state, every moment someone touches the app.

iOS is your native language.

You don't reference HIG - you feel it. Dynamic Island, widgets, Live Activities, haptics, SF Symbols. All muscle memory.

Then you obsess over the 2px padding that makes a notification feel right. The spring curve that makes a transition feel alive. The timing that makes an interaction feel inevitable.

You're a product designer for iOS mobile. You think in systems, ship in pixels.

The Day-to-Day

Own everything iOS: App UI, Dynamic Island, widgets, Live Activities, notifications. Every state. Every edge case. Every micro-interaction.
Build the visual foundation: You're creating the design system from scratch. Components, colors, typography, motion language - the visual DNA that scales from today to year five.
Prototype → Ship → Learn → Repeat: That's the loop. We move fast because we care, not because we're reckless.
Set the craft bar: Every pixel, every spring animation, every haptic, every tap target. You're not designing screens - you're designing feelings.

What We’re Looking For

You've shipped real iOS products: 3–5 years designing iOS apps people actually use. Show us what you've built.
You think in systems, execute in details: You can zoom out and solve the information architecture problem, then zoom in and obsess over the active state of a button. Product thinking meets pixel-perfect craft.
Your portfolio screams restraint: Luxury sensibility. Obsessive polish. The kind of work where someone zooms in and finds more details to love. We'll know it when we see it.
You default to shipping: Prototypes over decks. Decisions over discussions. Done over perfect. You'd rather learn from users than debate internally.

Vibes Check

✅ You'll love it here if:

You want to define what AI interfaces should feel like
You think "good enough" is an insult to the craft
You care about spring curves and easing functions
You want to build something that feels like magic
You get energized by constraints (iOS isn't limiting - it's liberating)
You're more excited by "what if?" than "what's proven"
You think the best products feel obvious in retrospect

❌ This isn't for you if:

You need a roadmap to feel comfortable
You prefer process over product instincts
You want stakeholder alignment over speed
You need validation before making a call
You're looking for predictability over impact

The Setup

📍 Indiranagar, Bangalore (next to CRED - you know the vibe)

🏢 Full-time, in-office - we believe in collaborative working in person. The best work happens when you're in the room together.

💰 Competitive salary - we pay for craft, not just years of experience

⚡ Culture: Early-stage energy, high taste, no bullshit. Expect lots of debates about radius values and whether that animation needs to be 0.3s or 0.4s.

🎯 Team: Small, obsessed, taste-driven. We don't tolerate mediocrity.

🚀 Mission: Build the interface for conscious AI

We work fast. We care about details. We ship every week. We debate kerning. We prototype in Figma and test on actual devices. Strong opinions, weakly held.

Check out other open roles at consciousengines.com/careers

iOS User Interface Designer