{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"96af2cfe4887bdf62e788b28","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/96af2cfe4887bdf62e788b28","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/96af2cfe4887bdf62e788b28","title":"Founding Engineer","description":"Why us?\nAurorin exists so that a handful of great engineers can build what once took thousands.\n\nEvery generation of tools shrinks the team size needed to build physical objects. Governments needed thousands of people to make a rocket; SpaceX built one with under 200 people. That same compression, fewer people for bigger things, is waiting to happen for every category of hardware humanity uses: cars, aircraft, computers, fusion reactors, wind turbines, humanoid and surgical robots, pacemakers, prosthetics, microscopes, satellites, and even the washing machines and refrigerators in every home. Every one of these starts in CAD.\n\nCAD software has barely changed in 45 years. The tools the world's best hardware engineers use every day were designed before the internet, long before modern GPUs, and long before anyone believed a twenty-person team could ship a car.\n\nYou cannot build the future we want on top of software from the 1980s. So we are rebuilding the entire CAD stack from scratch, starting with a new CAD kernel, designed to be extremely fast and AI native. This is the only way to let ten people build a rocket.\n\nAurorin is the CAD that lets a few great engineers do what used to take armies, so more of what humanity needs actually gets built, and gets built faster.\n\nIf this is something you want to spend your life building, come build it with us.\n\nAurorin was founded by Michael Baron who has a strong background at the intersection of software and hardware. Previously, he worked at SpaceX on Raptor combustion simulation, Dragon Guidance, Navigation & Control, and Starshield flight software, as well as GPU driver performance at Apple.\n\nWhy you?\nWe are looking for very driven people who care about our mission. People who are excited by the fact that they’ll be able to point to almost any physical object and say, “My software helped make that.”\n\nRequirements\n\nStrong background in systems programming or building of native applications\n\nHigh responsibility and proactivity\n\nPreferred skills and experience:\n\nStrong Swift experience\n\nStrong C++ experience\n\nGPU programming experience\n\nWhat will you do?\n\nYou will be responsible for assisting the design of Aurorin's new CAD kernel and software stack at every level.\n\nYou will see your software through from start to finish: from figuring out the core needs to prototyping, developing, and testing; to validated learning seeing if your change actually helped users and was needed.\n\nThe Tech Stack\nAurorin has built a brand new CAD software stack from the ground up. Almost all of our software stack is written in swift. 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