Engine Software Engineer (Generalist) - KittyCAD
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- Engine Software Engineer (Generalist)
- Job Location
- Remote
- Job Listing URL
- https://boards.greenhouse.io/kittycad/jobs/4116081005
- Job Description
About Us
KittyCAD is an infrastructure company, bringing together everything required to build tools for hardware designers. Our vision is to make these tools as programmable as the rest of the internet. We take a technology-first approach to hardware design, so that you can use KittyCAD's APIs to build tools, automation, websites, and apps.
KittyCAD was founded and incubated by Embedded Ventures in 2021, and is fully remote.
About You
We’re looking for curious, innovative, and ambitious self-starters to join our founding team and help us bring our mission to life. Our culture has innovation at its core in order to achieve competitive growth and success. We think you’ll thrive on our team if you’re:
- Excited to get in on the ground floor of something big!
- Energized by complex challenges and problem solving
- Able to operate autonomously but also enjoy collaborating with innovative teams
- Agile and thrive in a scale-up, changing environment while maintaining customer-facing interactions
- Curious at your core, and known to grab from modern research/papers/trends to implement new techniques
About The Role
We’re looking for an Engine Software Engineer to help us build our CAD engine from the ground up. In this role, you’ll leverage your experience with pipeline, simulation, and optimizations to give our users a world-class experience. You’ll own technical projects from start to finish, contribute to our product roadmap, and support the strategic development of our Technology function.
What You’ll Do
- Help design, develop, optimize, and debug the KittyCAD engine
- Implement and continuously improve various low-level and complex architectural systems that interface with graphics APIs, physics, simulation, modeling, rendering, and proceduralization pipelines, etc
- Analyze code for performance and optimization opportunities as it relates to load times, memory usage and platform-specific performance issues, etc
- Become an expert on our product strategy and customer use cases in order to provide the best solutions to our growing customer base
- Document functionality and implementation details for production and other Engineers
What You’ll Need
- B.S. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Professional experience with 3D graphics, rendering, modeling, physics, and simulation algorithms
- Proficiency with C/C++
- Experience with CUDA/OpenCL
- Experience with Git
- Prior experience working with both low-level and visualization-focused aspects of a graphics pipeline
- Familiarity with libraries and tools for programming language interoperability
- Strong ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working with open-source projects and collaborating with open-source communities
Nice to Have
- Experienced in planning, building, deploying, and productizing a version 1.0 stack
- Experience with Game Engine or Animation Pipeline development
- Experience with Rust
- Experience with Python, Javascript/Typescript, and/or Golang
- Familiarity with Cloud APIs
- Knowledge of DXR and/or Vulkan
- Knowledge of OpenGL
- Familiarity with CAD
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation & equity packages
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage for you and your dependents (US-based employees)
- 401K match
- Home office stipend & wifi reimbursement to set you up for success working remotely
- Flexible vacation policy
- Company-wide 2 weeks paid time off for winter and summer break closures
KittyCAD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We’re committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
KittyCAD Company Size
Between 5 - 20 employees
KittyCAD Founded Year
2021
KittyCAD Total Amount Raised
$5,124,329