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About Us

We're on a mission to revolutionize the CAD industry by developing the world's most advanced hardware design infrastructure and tools. Mechanical CAD is in the dark ages, and hardware demands have outpaced today’s hardware design infrastructure. The industry is due for a refresh, and we're laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit so that you can create new design tools never before possible.

We are headquartered in Los Angeles, CA with both a local and remote team. We were founded and incubated by Embedded Ventures in 2021.

About You

We’re looking for curious, innovative, and ambitious self-starters to join our lean and growing team to help us bring our mission to life. We think you’ll thrive on our team if you’re:

Curious at your core, with an eagerness to learn and do things differently
Customer-focused, always thinking about ways to improve the user experience
Able to operate autonomously and work asynchronously, while also being an effective team player

About The Role

We’re looking for a File Format Engineer to help design and implement our own file format. Most CAD and graphics file formats are lossy in one way or another and we aim to create the file format for modern learning about previous file formats, their problems, edge cases, reverse engineering undocumented file formats, and finding and solving undocumented behaviors. We are a small startup so there are lots of opportunities to add a lot of value and design systems that will scale with the company in the future.

What You’ll Do

Help design, develop, optimize, and debug our file format
Help make the file format an open standard after we have proven it out
Implement converters to and from existing file formats, including ours
Find opportunities to simplify code with macros or traits so that adding new logic is seamless and painless
Become an expert on the various file formats that exist, their edge cases, what data they lose
Reverse engineer undocumented file formats and implement conversions from those
Debug and optimize performance issues related to file import and export in our systems
Document functionality and implementation details for production and other engineers

What You’ll Need

B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience
Proficiency with Rust
Experience with Git
Prior experience working on a production system
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

Professional experience with CAD or graphics file formats (any of: STL, OBJ+MTL, PLY, DXF, FBX, GLTF, etc)
Experience with manufacturing
Experience with Game Engine or Animation Pipeline development
Experience with C++
Experience with Python, Javascript/Typescript, and/or Golang
Familiarity with Cloud APIs
Familiarity with distributed systems
Knowledge of Vulkan / CUDA
Familiarity with CAD

The salary range for this role is provided below. The final offer will depend on multiple factors including candidate experience, skills, expertise, and market data. Compensation may vary by geography. In addition to salary, we offer competitive equity as well as a full benefits package which may vary by geography as well.

Salary Range$149,000—$189,000 USD

Zoo is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. The Zoo team is made up of incredibly talented and unique individuals from across the globe. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, Veteran status, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply!