Zoo
Custom Software Development · CAD, PLM & BIM Software
5open roles
$195kmedian advertised pay
2backers · PWV, Quantonation
Growinghiring pace, 70 of 100
Overview
Zoo creates infrastructure for hardware design. We're laying the foundation for a modern hardware design toolkit, so that you can create new design tools never before possible.
Funding and backers
Team
25
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +67% in a year
Hiring now
5
+4 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
PWV, Quantonation
Momentum
62/100
hiring for its size, in the news, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
2025
Team of 25 was 15 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 20, 2023
On the Hacker News front page Text-to-CAD · 119 points
2021
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
12
best: 119 points
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$195k
Typical range
$170k – $195k
Open positions
5
3
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $195k | $195k |
Highest paying role
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure
$195k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Zoo
By role, level and city, against the market · 5 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
70/100
Growing
Open positions
5
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
67% ▲
Frontend
17% ▲
Solutions
17% ▼
Actively hiring for Backend (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Stripe to stack
Oct 2026
Added React.js to stack
Oct 2026
Added JavaScript to stack
Oct 2026
New location: United States
Oct 2026
Added STL to stack
Oct 2026
Added SolidWorks to stack
Oct 2026
Added Rust to stack
Oct 2026
Added C++ to stack
Oct 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zoo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
18
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
70/100
Languages
Rust
JavaScript
C++
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
CUDA
OpenGL
STL
Cloud & platforms
WebAssembly
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Full Zoo tech stack
18 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Connections
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Shared investors
QuantonationVia a fund
Click a company to open it. Dashed lines are likely connections. The second step of the network is part of the Pro plan.
Owner
Same company
Same group
Likely
News
Zoo (@zoodotdev) on X
1st Place: ThreeDSViewer - https://t.co/zcjnRJFC95 Yes. In its full stereoscopic beauty, @GuiEspada has made the "CAD on DS" meme real. ThreeDSViewer uses the Zoo Engine API to sketch using the stylus on the bottom screen, and compute models to then show
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Alex Nichol (@unixpickle) on X
I finally tried @zoodotdev, and found it to be frustrating. Walk with me as I attempt to make a rounded 3D heart.First, I created half of a heart (with rough edges, but that's fine for a start). My plan is to duplicate it and join the two sides; let's try
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Zoo: Makefile.md - Possibly Use(fulless) Polyglot Synthesis of Makefile and Markdown
This is a short story of how my coworker Jace sniped me into creating a polyglot Makefile-Markdown file.
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Zoo: Zoo Design Studio v1: A New Stack for Mechanical CAD
Spoiler: we wrote our own geometry engine, programming language, ML model, and CAD GUI
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Zoo: Zoo CAD Engine Overview
A summary of the motivations and methodologies behind the Zoo CAD Engine.
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Zoo: Introducing delouse
Introduction post on our internal rust tokio async debugging tool, delouse!
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Zoo: ML CAD Model Generator Create CAD Files With Text
Zookeeper is an open-source prompt interface for generating CAD files through text prompts. Generate models that you can import into the CAD program of your choice.
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Zoo: Tales From a Mechanical Engineer
My stories and thoughts on the current state of CAD and why I'm excited for the future.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
United States
HQ
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% remote $170k Avg Salary
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