Front-end Engineer

About Atomic Tessellator

We're a computational materials science startup - meaning that we simulate materials to predict their performance prior to any physical testing done in a lab. Our platform is a virtual lab that lets us simulate almost everything that there is to know about an engineering material's properties.

We're a team of four, and over the last year we've completed pilot projects across aerospace, defence, nuclear fusion, and advanced polymers. Using the same platform that's openly accessible to the public, we've discovered and are in the process of patenting our first rare-earth magnet substitute.

Note that this is a field dominated by academia, who often aren't strong software engineers. We're challenging the field of computational materials science - which is usually synonymous with fortran, text on a terminal, and 500-page pdf documentation.

About the role

We're seeking a senior front-end developer to take full ownership and responsibility of our platform application's front-end. As mentioned before, you'll be spearheading our efforts in transforming the public perception of this entire industry.

Here's an example of what our platform does. You're seeing a PKA (primary knock-on atom effect) simulation on 50Å of tungsten inside a nuclear fusion reactor.

The application is built with Vue.js, Vite, Typescript, Pinia, Cytoscape.js, Chart.js, D3.js, Three.js, and WebGL.

• We're seeking someone with exceptional taste, and the ability to champion this taste internally to hold everyone to a high standard. We'll engage with a design agency in the future to build a cohesive brand and design language.
• Advanced in Vue.js an laterally relevant technologies - you should be fluent with reactivity, components, directives, lifecycle hooks etc. Advanced state management in Pinia, etc.
• Advanced in Three.js/WebGL and able to build out our simulation visualisations in a performant way. We're after fluency in writing compute shaders and high-performance GPU programming. We've built custom data formats to support performance of rendering large point-cloud-like atomic renders.
  • WebGPU is a huge plus.
• Have experience building out automated unit/integration/end-to-end testing.
• You should have an appetite to learn/not shy away from quantum chemistry concepts. We can teach, but a core part of your responsibility is digesting and communicating these scientific concepts in a clear, concise, and beautiful manner.
• You should feel at-home with LLMs. They're a core part of our dev workflow, we use cursor/amp/claude code internally. We can teach the advanced agentic programming stuff.
• You'll also be helping with ad-hoc work on the marketing site.

Given you'll be taking ownership, we want to trust your judgment and do what you think is best. We're not scared to tear things down and build them again. We compete on velocity.

What we look for

At a baseline we look for the following:

• Authenticity: you say what you think and do what you say
• Intelligence: you can't satisfy your curiosity
• Drive: you have short-term urgency but long-term patience
• Taste: you see and appreciate what most can't see