Full-Time

Senior Systems Software Engineer

Zoo

Zoo

51-200 employees

GPU-powered hardware design toolkit and services

Compensation Overview

$145k - $195k/yr

+ Equity

Remote in USA + 1 more

More locations: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hybrid

Bachelor's

Category
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Rust
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Docker
Observability
REST APIs

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Requirements
  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience
  • Strong professional experience in systems, platform, or infrastructure engineering
  • Proficiency in Rust with a solid understanding of systems-level programming
  • Solid experience with databases (transactional & analytical) including schema design, performance tuning, migrations, and operational reliability
  • Strong understanding of API design, data flows, and service integrations
  • Hands-on experience with distributed systems or service-oriented architectures
  • Comfort working with infrastructure-as-code and containerized deployments
  • Ability to work autonomously and make high-leverage technical decisions in a fast-moving environment
  • A bias toward automation and building tools that remove friction
Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, and maintain core systems and services that support our platform’s reliability, performance, and scalability
  • Build automation and tooling that reduce operational overhead, improve developer workflows, and enforce system-level consistency
  • Develop integrations between our systems and external platforms (e.g., billing, CRM, authentication, analytics)
  • Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting across services to ensure strong operational visibility
  • Architect and maintain infrastructure components (e.g., distributed services, data pipelines, deployment automation)
  • Contribute to security-focused systems work, such as permissions controls, access flows, and auditability
  • Troubleshoot issues across services and layers, backend, infrastructure, and occasionally frontend, taking full ownership from diagnosis to resolution
  • Jump into frontend code as needed to close the loop on system-level changes or fix issues that block broader system reliability
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with frontend development (JavaScript/React) for occasional UI-level fixes
  • Background with billing systems (Stripe) or CRM platforms
  • Experience building internal tooling, permissions systems, or developer productivity infrastructure
  • Familiarity with CAD-adjacent workflows or domain-specific data pipelines

KittyCAD.io provides infrastructure for hardware design, offering a GPU-powered engine with remote streaming and an Open API to support both pre-built tools and client-developed applications. Its Modeling AppPublic Alpha combines point-and-click CAD with code editing, and its Text-to-CAD interface helps automate workflows. The product suite accelerates design processes through machine learning and autoscaling infrastructure, while reducing hardware requirements and costs. KittyCAD.io differentiates itself with a GPU-accelerated, streaming-enabled platform that works across devices and operating systems, and by offering customizable tooling via an Open API, allowing hobbyists, startups, and enterprises to build, deploy, and scale hardware design tools more efficiently. The company’s goal is to save engineering time and resources, enable flexible tool development, and lower the barriers to hardware design by providing scalable, automated infrastructure.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Zoo launched Design Studio in May 2025, then added Zookeeper and file uploads.
  • June 2026 release 1.3.4 improved undo/redo, GD&T notes, and surface modeling.
  • Free browser access and cross-platform desktop apps lower adoption friction for teams.

What critics are saying

  • Onshape and Autodesk now bundle AI CAD features, shrinking Zoo's differentiation window.
  • Zoo's free tier and $99 pricing face pressure if enterprise conversion stalls by 2026.
  • If Text-to-CAD misses manufacturing accuracy, engineers revert to Fusion 360 or Onshape.

What makes Zoo unique

  • Zoo Design Studio ships a GPU-based, cloud-implemented, API-accessible geometry engine.
  • Zookeeper unifies point-and-click, code, and text-to-CAD inside one CAD environment.
  • Zoo's APIs target developers building custom hardware-design tools, not just end users.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Hybrid Work Options

Unlimited Paid Time Off

Remote Work Options

Stock Options

Competitive Equity

Wellness Program

Company News

PR Newswire
May 28th, 2025
Zoo Launches Zoo Design Studio

The First Professional CAD Platform Powered by Generative AI LOS ANGELES, May 28, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoo, a company that creates infrastructure for hardware design, today announced the launch of Zoo Design Studio, a unified CAD suite for engineering and manufacturing companies of all sizes. Included in Zoo Design Studio is Text-to-CAD, a feature that enables design engineers to leverage the power of generative AI to create complex designs in seconds.  The new service is available via subscription, starting from free and with advanced features included in paid tiers, from $99 per month. Zoo Design Studio allows customers to flexibly weave edits to their designs between traditional point-and-click interactions, programmatic interactions with code, and text prompt interactions via Text-to-CAD. This allows the customer to choose any of these three approaches within one common environment. Zoo Design Studio is built using their proprietary geometry engine, which is the world's first to be GPU-based, cloud-implemented, API-accessible, and dynamically scalable

VCNewsDaily
Oct 5th, 2023
Kittycad Closes $5M Seed Financing

KittyCAD Closes $5M Seed Financing Back to HomeMALIBU, CA, KittyCAD a company developing advanced tools for hardware design, has closed a $5M Series Seed financing led by Venrex Partners.KittyCAD a company developing advanced tools for hardware design, has closed a $5M Series Seed financing led by Venrex Partners, a UK-based Venture Capital firm. The round also included participation from USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, Gaingels, Kelvin Beachum, Matt Terrell, Undeterred Capital, Liquid 2, Tom Preston-Werner's Family Office, Madrona Venture Group, Bernie Lagrange, and Nat Friedman.(c)2011-2020 by Massinvestor, Inc. For contact info, please check out our about page

Digital Engineering 24/7
Oct 4th, 2023
KittyCAD Updates API, Adds Geometry Engine

KittyCAD, a company that develops advanced tools for hardware design, has released geometry engine capabilities on its application programming interface.

PR Newswire
Oct 3rd, 2023
KITTYCAD ANNOUNCES UPDATED API WITH HIGHLY ANTICIPATED GEOMETRY ENGINE CAPABILITIES

/PRNewswire/ -- KittyCAD, the world's only company to develop advanced tools for hardware design, announced today the release of first-ever geometry engine...

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