Founding Design Engineer
Cardboard, San Francisco +1
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What you need
- You have deep knowledge of easing and timing. Ease-out, ease-in-out, linear: you know when and why. You have opinions about 80ms vs 300ms.
- You're fluent in GSAP, Framer Motion, and Three.js. You're comfortable with shaders, dither effects, and SVG animation performance.
- You're solid in WebGL and GLSL. You understand rendering pipelines from the inside, not just as an API.
- You're obsessed with frontend performance. You can profile browser performance bottlenecks and systematically optimize them, especially during extended editing sessions.
- Bonus: you're excited about WebGPU and where it's going.
What you get
You'd be surrounded by people who are absurdly good at what they do. One started coding at 11 and shipped an app with 6M+ downloads in high school. One got into CS engineering at 14 and has been working on distributed systems for 8+ years. One's an ex-founder who took a company to 1.2M users and $300M+ in transactions. That's the team. We're looking for someone who'll raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and creative product quality. Apart from that you'd get: