# Founding Design Engineer

About 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. Design Engineering 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. What you'll actually do Build and

- **Id**: 781573
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cardboard-founding-design-engineer>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bengaluru, India, San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: IN, US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-06-22T11:31:57Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-06-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T07:14:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 141
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3481
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Photo & Video Editing Software

## Company

- **Id**: 670001
- **Name**: Cardboard
- **Domain**: cardboard.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cardboard-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Technologies

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- **Three.JS** — Optional: no
- **WebGPU** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 141

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-12T00:51:37Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.328
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 141
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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