Creative Technologist, HCI

What You'll Be Doing

• Prototype experimental AI interfaces beyond standard chat UI.
• Build quick proof-of-concept experiences using AI models, APIs, and frontend tools.
• Explore new ways for users to understand, direct, and collaborate with AI systems.
• Test interaction ideas around human control, trust, transparency, memory, multimodal input, and long-running workflows.
• Work with product, design, and ML teams to turn early ideas into testable prototypes quickly.
• Identify useful HCI patterns from research, products, and emerging tools, then test whether they work for A1.
• Document experiments clearly - what was tested, what worked, what failed, and what should be built next.
• Contribute to the team's understanding of what HCI should look and feel like in a real consumer app.

What You Will Need

• Experience prototyping at the intersection of design and technology - creative technology, design engineering, prototyping, or R&D roles.
• Ability to build functional prototypes using web technologies, APIs, or AI tools.
• Curiosity about how AI systems work and how users build mental models of AI behavior.
• Comfort moving between design thinking and hands-on building.
• Awareness of HCI principles, emerging UI patterns, and the limitations of current AI systems.
• Strong communication skills - able to explain experimental ideas and prototype findings clearly.
• High comfort with ambiguity and early-stage product exploration.
• Good judgment on which experiments are interesting versus which ones are actually useful for users.