Overview

InVision is the world’s leading product design platform, powering the future of digital product design through our deep understanding of the dynamics of collaboration. We provide three million people with the power to prototype, review, refine, manage and user test web and mobile products. InVision drives the product design process at leading Fortune 100 companies, including at Disney, IBM, Walmart, Apple, Verizon and General Motors. Backed by Accel, ICONIQ Capital, FirstMark Capital, Tiger Global and others. InVision is a distributed team with over 400 employees around the world.

We are looking for a Layout Lead Engineer to join our Studio Engine team. We ship cross-platform, both in the browser and on a phone.. You will be part of a small team that operates like a mini-startup. You’ll help lead efforts in developing robust layout solutions that utilize Javascript, WebGL, and custom GPU shaders.

Who you are:

You have a passion for cutting edge UI design and computer graphics.  You know what it takes to build a performant rendering solution that works in the browser but goes all the way to the GPU.  And you get a kick out of tweaking every last bit of performance from the system. You’re someone who loves math, keeps up on the latest algorithms, and understands how to leverage the underlying hardware. You read a lot of papers, but more importantly you love turning what you learn into real-world solutions and delivering them to customers.

Additionally, you have:

  • Strong Math skills including Analytic Geometry and Linear Algebra.
  • Strong skills in JavaScript, C++, Go, Bonus points  → Rust
  • 5-8 years experience working as a UI, Graphics, or Rendering Engineer
  • 3+ years of experience as a technical lead

What you’ll do:

  • Lead and develop innovative graphics techniques, algorithms, and tools to maximize graphics quality and performance.
  • Promote and foster innovation within the team to produce creative solutions!
  • Manage projects that will be the foundation of future research projects
  • You will be responsible for building and shipping all components necessary for your product, and you will work with Product Managers and Designers to determine the functionality, look, and feel.
  • Every day offers a variety of work, an opportunity to contribute new ideas, and the ability to share your knowledge through blog posts and presentations.
  • Ability and desire to debug hard problems at every level; you’ll build out WebGL and Canvas solutions, write unit and functional tests, and verify before deploying.
  • Profiling skills and the proven ability to tune for performance.
  • Curiosity to iterate and improve on solutions; you view unknowns as challenges and enjoy them.
  • Motivation to understand the business and our users, their requirements, and deliver results.
  • Passion for continued learning and achieving personal goals through developer community involvement and contributions.

Want to join us?

If this sounds like your ideal next step, you will have the ability and desire to debug hard problems at every level; you’ll build out WebGL and Canvas solutions, write unit and functional tests, and verify before deploying. You should have a demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts applicable to our product and technical stack, and should have experience writing a variety of technical documentation.

You will need to be organized and comfortable managing multiple tasks and competing priorities efficiently, and will be able to resolve issues collaboratively and with a focus on delivery.  Our culture is highly team-centered, and our teams have a strong sense of ownership, drive, and sense of urgency. You should, too.

Benefits

InVision offers a deeply unique work environment. The company employs a diverse team all over the world. In the United States we have teams including hubs in New York, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, and Boston. Each InVision team member is given the freedom and tools to do their best work from wherever they choose. Among our benefits we offer competitive health plans, 401k, a flexible vacation policy, Cafe cards for each employee, and a healthy book allowance related to your profession.

InVision is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.