Founding Design Engineer

We're building the future of storytelling and video editing.

We're a small team that moves fast and builds things we're proud of.

We care obsessively about taste: in design, in product, in every detail.

We're solving these hard problems.

We're backed by a Tier-1 global fund, YC, and founders of billion dollar companies.

Video is the most powerful way humans tell stories. It always has been. But creating it today is still painfully hard. Fragmented tools, steep learning curves, and workflows that get in the way of the actual creative work. We're building Cardboard to change that.

In a product like ours, how things move, respond, and feel is not a finishing touch. It's the product. We're hiring a Founding Design Engineer who lives at that intersection: someone who can author the feel of Cardboard, not just implement it.

You'll be working alongside a team of engineers who all care deeply about craft, including the founders. The surface is where you'll shine. You know enough full stack to hook things up when you need to, but interactions, animations, and the details that make a product feel alive are what you're here for.

Build and ship the interactions, animations, micro-interactions, and core rendering engine work that powers Cardboard.

Optimize memory usage when projects reference tens of gigs of source media through smart streaming, caching, and asset management across OPFS, Cache Storage, cache headers, and related browser primitives.

Work across core product features like the editor timeline, end-to-end microsites, micro-apps, and polished elements across our marketing and blog.