Senior Software Engineer – Graphics at Vizcom | San Francisco

Agency Notice: We are not currently collaborating with recruitment agencies for this position. Please refrain from contacting Vizcom employees about this role. Any resumes submitted without prior agreement will be considered unsolicited.Why Join Vizcom?At Vizcom, we are on a mission to transform the design process by simplifying the journey from concept to creation, allowing impactful ideas to materialize in the physical world. Backed by significant funding (Series B with $51 million raised to date), we are experiencing robust growth and are expanding our core engineering team in San Francisco. Our projects span a wide range of areas including real-time collaboration, large-scale GPU inference, and leveraging a modern TypeScript stack to serve enterprise needs.The RoleAs a Senior Software Engineer – Graphics (Rendering & Real-Time Systems), you will be responsible for the rendering and interactivity layer that powers Vizcom’s creative canvas. Your work will encompass everything from brush simulation to real-time lighting and 3D previews, challenging the boundaries of what is achievable in the browser. You will engage with technologies such as WebGL, WebGPU, and AI-assisted graphics, collaborating with design and AI teams to make creativity feel instantaneous. In your first 90 days, you will: deliver a core rendering improvement (e.g., new brush pipeline, shader cache, or culling system) that enhances frame stability or interactivity; create a graphics profiling toolkit or debugging overlay to visualize GPU performance in production; ship an experimental graphics feature to production or beta users (for example, stylized rendering, 3D lighting, or layered compositing); and document a graphics architecture RFC clarifying design decisions and performance budgets.Compensation$195,000 - $225,000 annually + Equity OptionsWhat You’ll Be DoingBuild and Optimize the Rendering Engine: Design and refine Vizcom’s core WebGL/WebGPU pipeline to achieve high performance and visual fidelity.Enhance Real-Time UX: Develop seamless brush and material interactions, animation systems, and responsive 3D previews.Integrate AI Solutions: Collaborate to incorporate GPU inference outputs (such as diffusion, segmentation, and line following) into interactive visual workflows.Performance Optimization: Profile GPU and CPU paths, minimize frame latency, and optimize memory usage for real-world applications.

Agency Notice: We are not collaborating with recruiting agencies for this position. Please refrain from contacting Vizcom employees regarding this role. Any unsolicited resumes will not be acknowledged.Why Join Vizcom?At Vizcom, we are on a mission to revolutionize design by simplifying the journey from concept to creation, transforming impactful ideas into tangible realities.Backed by significant funding (Series B with $51 million raised to date), we are experiencing robust month-over-month growth and are actively expanding our core engineering team in San Francisco. Our scope is vast: real-time collaboration, GPU inference at scale, utilizing a modern TypeScript stack, and addressing real enterprise needs.The RoleAs a Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for key product components in Vizcom’s real-time design environment, including our canvas rendering engine and collaborative UX systems. Your expertise in React, WebGL, and GraphQL will be essential in enhancing performance, interaction design, and developer experience. You will work closely with designers, AI engineers, and backend leaders to ensure that Vizcom’s interface is not only visually stunning but also exceptionally fast. In your first 90 days, you will: deliver a new or re-architected user-facing feature that enhances product performance or fidelity, establish a render or collaboration performance baseline (including metrics like frame rate, latency, and bundle size), contribute to frontend technology direction (such as render pipeline abstraction and UI state modeling), and eliminate one persistent performance or UX issue across the frontend stack.Compensation$195,000 - $225,000 annually + Equity OpportunitiesYour ResponsibilitiesCreate Engaging Interactive Features: Develop functionalities that integrate design, collaboration, and 3D visualization.Enhance Performance: Optimize React and WebGL rendering to ensure instantaneous responsiveness under load.Design Developer Ergonomics: Develop component architecture, hooks, and state models that scale effectively.Collaborate with Design Teams: Rapidly prototype, test user experiences, and bring high-fidelity UX to fruition.Boost Observability: Implement and analyze performance metrics (FPS, React profiler, network traces).Mentor Colleagues: Review code for clarity, structure, and long-term maintainability.

Agency Notice: We are not currently collaborating with recruiting agencies for this role. We kindly ask that you refrain from contacting Vizcom employees regarding this position. Any resumes submitted without prior agreement will be considered unsolicited.About VizcomVizcom is a cutting-edge visual creation platform that merges advanced web tooling with AI-driven workflows. Our technology stack incorporates React/TypeScript for the front end, Node/Koa + PostGraphile for API services, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ for queuing, and a Kubernetes-based production infrastructure.We are seeking a seasoned expert to oversee platform stability and infrastructure, ensuring our system remains reliable, efficient, and resilient as we scale.Role MissionTake full ownership of service reliability: proactively prevent incidents, minimize impact during failures, and guide swift, high-quality recovery during production downtimes.This role involves hands-on technical leadership, granting you the authority to establish reliability standards and enforce production protocols.CompensationBase salary between $200,000 and $250,000, plus significant equity.Your ResponsibilitiesReliability Standards: Define and uphold SLIs/SLOs/error budgets for key user interactions.Resilience of Production Architecture: Implement failure isolation across APIs, workers, queues, and interdependencies to ensure one subsystem's failure does not disrupt core access.Kubernetes Runtime Reliability: Establish probe contracts, deployment standards, graceful shutdown protocols, scaling/resource policies, and startup safety measures.Queue & Job Safety (BullMQ/Redis): Manage poison pill containment and workload segregation.Incident Command Quality: Lead Sev1/Sev2 incident responses from containment to corrective actions.Reliability Operating System: Oversee observability quality (prioritizing signal over noise), on-call efficiency, runbook maintenance, and postmortem discipline.Deployment Safety Authority: Gate risky deployments and enforce reliability protocols whenever production health is compromised.

Agency Notice: We are not currently collaborating with recruiting agencies for this position. Please refrain from contacting Vizcom employees regarding this role. Any resumes submitted without a prior agreement will be deemed unsolicited.Why Join Vizcom?Vizcom is an innovative AI-driven design platform utilized by industry leaders such as GM, Nike, and Ford, among over 200 other esteemed companies, to transform sketches into stunning photorealistic renders, 3D models, and engaging videos. Our belief is that AI should enhance human creativity rather than replace it. By adopting a sketch-first methodology, we empower designers to maintain control while significantly speeding up the iteration process from 5 ideas to 500 in a single session. Our team of around 50 is rapidly expanding, delivering multiple updates daily, and developing the tool that is setting the benchmark for professional industrial design.Your RoleIn this role, you will engage with the entirety of Vizcom's technology stack, from TypeScript-based design tools to Postgres data models and AI inference pipelines, to deliver fully integrated features that designers rely on daily. While our frontend and backend specialists dive deep into their focuses, your expertise spans wide: you will be the engineer capable of tracing a bug from a React component through a GraphQL query to a Postgres function, resolving it, and deploying the fix before lunch.This position is perfect for individuals who thrive on variety and ownership. In any given week, you may create a new canvas interaction in React Flow, refine a PostGraphile query, implement a BullMQ job for a new AI workflow, and review a fellow team member's migration. Your contributions will make the philosophy of enhancing human creativity with AI a reality across our entire product.Compensation$195K – $225K + Offers EquityKey ResponsibilitiesDeliver complete features: Take ownership of features from React component to Postgres schema — with no handoffs or delays.Enhance product UI: Create fast and precise interactions in React, TypeScript, and React Flow.Develop APIs and data models: Execute Postgres migrations, PostGraphile mutations, and RLS policies for multi-tenant isolation.Integrate AI workflows: Seamlessly connect frontend experiences to GPU inference pipelines through BullMQ and external AI services.Optimize the tech stack: Profile and enhance performance across the board — from React renders to GraphQL resolutions and query plans.Collaborate extensively: Partner with frontend specialists, graphics engineers, designers, and product teams to deliver cohesive user experiences.Enhance reliability: Implement monitoring for features to ensure robust performance.

Agency Notice: We are not currently partnering with recruitment agencies for this position. Please refrain from contacting Vizcom employees regarding this role. Any resumes submitted without prior agreement will be deemed unsolicited.Why Join Vizcom?At Vizcom, our mission is to revolutionize design by simplifying the journey from concept to realization, ensuring that impactful ideas are transformed into tangible products. We are well-funded, with a Series B funding of $51 million to date, and we are experiencing double-digit growth month over month. Our core engineering team in San Francisco is expanding, focusing on a wide range of challenges including real-time collaboration, GPU inference at scale, and utilizing a modern TypeScript stack to serve enterprise needs.Your RoleAs a Senior Staff Software Engineer, you will take full ownership of essential product domains, guiding the technical strategy from architecture to deployment. Your responsibilities will include conducting design reviews, delivering prototypes that advance our products, and establishing practical engineering standards that harmonize speed and quality. In addition to your own contributions, you will mentor colleagues to become future technical leaders, fostering a top-tier engineering culture as Vizcom scales.Compensation$234K – $285K + Equity OptionsKey ResponsibilitiesDevelop the architectural roadmap to ensure Vizcom remains reliable, scalable, and enjoyable for development as usage and data evolve.Engage hands-on by diving into code for key functionalities, rapid prototypes, and complex debugging (including latency, memory issues, race conditions, and WebGL/WASM peculiarities).Implement quality assurance measures that can scale: testing strategies, code review processes, performance budgets, and observability standards.Mentor and cultivate talent: guide senior engineers to evolve into tech leads, document clear design practices, and exemplify effective decision-making.Collaborate cross-functionally: articulate engineering trade-offs to Product, Design, and Go-To-Market teams; act as the CTO's representative when necessary.First 90 Days GoalsEnhance reliability and performance: establish an observability-driven strategy for our top 5 critical workflows; aim to reduce p95 for at least one user-visible flow by approximately 30% through targeted optimizations (query planning, caching, batching, and GPU/CPU boundaries).Architectural Contributions: Draft a significant RFC (e.g., real-time document models, rendering pipeline demarcations, or background job architecture) and lead it to implementation.Team Development: Mentor two engineers, ensuring measurable progress in their scope, design quality, or other key performance metrics.

Agency Notice: We are not partnering with recruiting agencies for this position. Please refrain from contacting Vizcom employees regarding this role. Any resumes submitted without prior agreement will be deemed unsolicited.Why Join Vizcom?At Vizcom, we are on a mission to transform the design landscape by simplifying the journey from concept to realization, bringing innovative ideas to life. We are backed by significant funding (Series B with $51m raised to date), experiencing rapid growth month over month, and expanding our core engineering team in San Francisco. Our work includes real-time collaboration, large-scale GPU inference, employing a modern TypeScript stack, and delivering enterprise solutions.Your RoleAs a Senior Backend Software Engineer, you will be pivotal in architecting and delivering backend systems that ensure Vizcom remains fast, reliable, and scalable as our workload and customer base expand. Your responsibilities will encompass everything from queueing GPU workloads to optimizing GraphQL resolvers and streaming real-time events. You will have comprehensive ownership over APIs, performance, and data integrity — collaborating closely with frontend and AI teams to create exceptional user experiences. Within your first 90 days, you will: successfully launch one key backend feature (e.g., model queue, caching layer, or real-time service), decrease p95 latency in a significant API path by approximately 30%, author a technical RFC suggesting improvements to architecture or reliability, and implement or document one observability enhancement (metrics, traces, alerts).Compensation$195,000 - $225,000 annually + Equity OfferingsWhat You Will AccomplishDesign and build scalable APIs using TypeScript/Node, GraphQL, and PostgresProfile and enhance performance for slow paths — queries, resolvers, and I/ODevelop and manage distributed systems: job queues, streaming, caching, and observabilityCollaborate with AI engineers to integrate GPU inference pipelines into user workflowsEnhance reliability: lead incident reviews and strengthen CI/CD and deployment processesGuide and mentor teammates on backend architecture, testing, and performance strategiesThe Challenges AheadDistributed GPU inference and queueing will be key areas of focus as we scale.

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