# Founding Design Engineer at Cardboard, Inc

Founding Design Engineer at Cardboard, Inc in Bengaluru and 1 more. On-site, full-time. Posted June 22, 2026.

- Company: Cardboard, Inc
- Location: Bengaluru and 1 more
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Experience: 8+ years
- Posted: 2026-06-22
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cardboard/8ef0724c-e8f8-48ca-9f11-e21096b7474c/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-design-engineer-cardboard-inc-jynqjt

## Requirements

- You own outcomes, not tickets: decide what to build, ship it, and check it worked.
- You talk to users and look at the data.
- You build with AI agents every day, and you're the taste and judgment in the loop.

## Description

### 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

Cardboard is a video editor you can talk to. In a product like ours, how things move and respond isn't a finishing touch. It's the product.
We're hiring a Founding Design Engineer to own how Cardboard feels and how people see it: in the product, and on the pages and launches where they first meet us. You design in code and ship it yourself.

### What you'll own

- The feel of the editor: timeline, preview, and the chat with our agent.

- Motion, shaders, and the visual effects people put in their videos.

- How people perceive Cardboard: marketing pages, launch moments, and experiments.

- Interface guidelines for the team and the UI our agents write.

### Who you are

- You've shipped interfaces and launches people talk about.

- You know easing and timing deeply, and you have opinions about 80ms vs 300ms.

- You're solid in React, CSS, and WebGL, and you can profile a dropped frame.

- Bonus: creative tools, or WebGPU.

### How we work

- You own outcomes, not tickets: decide what to build, ship it, and check it worked.

- You talk to users and look at the data.

- You build with AI agents every day, and you're the taste and judgment in the loop.

### What success looks like

Within your first six months:

- The editor feels noticeably faster and calmer.

- Our marketing pages and launches set the bar for how Cardboard looks.

- The UI our agents write follows guidelines you set.

### What you get

You'd be surrounded by people who are absurdly good at what they do. One started coding at 11 and shipped an app with 6M+ downloads in high school. One got into CS engineering at 14 and has been working on distributed systems for 8+ years. One's an ex-founder who took a company to 1.2M users and $300M+ in transactions. That's the team. We're looking for someone who'll raise the bar on technical craftsmanship and creative product quality. Apart from that you'd get:

- Competitive salary and founding-team equity.

- Unlimited tokens across every AI model. Use whatever you want, as much as you want.

- A healthy budget for AI tools and any peripherals you need to do your best work.