Software Engineer – Frontend Design & Engineering
Position Overview
Beyond Limits is seeking a high-energy, creative, and passionate Software Engineer to join our Front-End Design & Engineering team. This entails working with all aspects of front-end design and implementation, interfacing with cutting-edge A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) technologies. As part of the front-end development team, you will build complex UI/UX features and components that bridge the user interface with our back-end processing pipelines and Web APIs. This role has exposure to many different technologies and business verticals creating huge room for learning and professional growth.
Job Duties/Responsibilities
- Work with the UX designers to understand requirements and build front-end web application components and applications
- Design and build web applications written in a variety of front-end technologies, including building of reusable UI components in a modularized manner
- Collaborate in an agile manner with engineers, data scientists, product owners and other cross-functional teams to deliver compelling UI/UX functionality
- Design new or leverage existing ways to visualize and plot complex multi-dimensional data sets
- Develop high-performance JavaScript-based front-end functionality using modern design patterns
- Establish and adhere to best practices in Design Thinking and User-Centric principles
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of applied front-end engineering and design experience
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related degree
- Proficiency with client-side JavaScript frameworks, preferably React
- Strong knowledge of wide-ranging front-end technologies
- Solid understanding of software design and architecture
- Experience working with data-driven systems and RESTful services
- Proficiency in performance tuning and profiling of JavaScript code
- Professional experience developing web applications with HTML, DOM, CSS, JavaScript
- A strong problem-solver mentality, and an intense curiosity about all things technology
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of direct hands-on React experience
- Experience with source control and unit test development
- Visual design skills and tools proficiency with Adobe Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop, InVision, or Figma
- Technical ability to translate placeholder designs into engineered reality
Please note: This position is located in our Glendale, CA headquarters and is eligible to participate in the company's hybrid 3/2 work model.
About Beyond Limits
Beyond Limits is a pioneering Artificial Intelligence engineering company creating advanced software solutions that go beyond conventional AI. Founded in 2014 with a legacy in space exploration, Beyond Limits is transforming proven technologies from Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory into advanced AI solutions, hardened to industrial strength, and put to work for forward-looking companies on earth. We leverage this unparalleled innovation portfolio, along with proprietary cognitive technologies, to help companies solve tough, complex, mission-critical problems and transform their business. We apply a unique hybrid approach to AI, combining numeric AI techniques like machine learning with higher order symbolic AI and expert human knowledge to deliver intuitive cognitive reasoning and information. Our cognitive computing technology mimics human thought processes and provides explainable reasoning to aid human-like decision-making.
Beyond Limits provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Beyond Limits complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Beyond Limits expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Beyond Limit’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.