Design Engineer - Experimental Digital & Hardware

Stripe, Inc.; South San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus or sales commissions/bon

401(k)

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe Creative Lab is hiring a Design Engineer to join a highly creative team that builds digital experiences, interactive projects, and experimental technology. You’ll collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to prototype ideas, translate creative direction into capable engineering, and explore new tech avenues to deliver ambitious concepts.

Key requirements include 6+ years in software engineering or creative tech, deep expertise in creative engineering, and a portfolio of

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant software engineering, creative technology, or creative development experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one area of creative engineering, with demonstrated curiosity and competence across adjacent technologies.
• A portfolio of technically ambitious, highly crafted work such as experimental websites, interactive experiences, realtime graphics, games, installations, creative tools, or other unusual applications of technology.
• Strong frontend engineering fundamentals and experience independently building and shipping public-facing web experiences.
• Strong visual and interaction sensibility, with the ability to faithfully execute sophisticated creative direction and identify opportunities to improve it.
• Experience solving unfamiliar technical problems with a high degree of independence.
• Experience writing thoughtful, maintainable code and making pragmatic engineering decisions in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Prototype and build highly crafted, experimental digital experiences, interactive projects, and creative tools
• Work closely with designers and art directors to translate ambitious creative direction into technically excellent experiences, while contributing your own judgment to make the work better
• Explore emerging technologies and unfamiliar technical approaches, quickly determining what is possible and how best to build it
• Independently navigate ambiguous technical problems, moving pragmatically from early experiments to finished work
• Build and publish standalone web experiences when appropriate, while identifying and communicating the additional engineering support required for more complex projects
• Experiment with hardware, physical computing, displays, sensors, embedded systems, and other technologies when projects call for them
• Collaborate with external engineers, fabricators, technical studios, and other specialists, contributing enough technical fluency to be an effective creative and engineering partner
• Maintain a high bar for performance, reliability, usability, and craft without allowing conventional technical approaches to unnecessarily constrain an idea

Skills

6+ years software engineering

Frontend engineering fundamentals

Creative technology

Tools

WebGL

WebGPU

Three.js

Shaders

Job description

Stripe Creative Lab is hiring a Design Engineer to join a highly creative team that builds digital experiences, interactive projects, and experimental technology. You’ll collaborate with designers, art directors, and producers to prototype ideas, translate creative direction into capable engineering, and explore new tech avenues to deliver ambitious concepts.

Key requirements include 6+ years in software engineering or creative tech, deep expertise in creative engineering, and a portfolio of