Careers at Drafter
Drafter reads what a design means and turns it into something a factory can act on. We are still a small team, growing faster than we are adding process, building for people whose parts end up in orbit, on the pad, and on the floor. The work is deeply technical, frequently unglamorous, and much bigger than we are.
A drawing Drafter produces is handed to a machinist who cuts metal to it and an inspector who measures against it. Getting it wrong does not cost a page view, it costs a part, six weeks later, in somebody else's schedule. That is a heavier kind of feedback than most software ever gets, and it is why the details here are worth the argument.
Read the Spaceium storyTeaching software to read a model the way a manufacturing engineer reads it: what matters, what has to hold, what is free to move. That is geometry and tolerance and GD&T and ASME Y14.5 and CAD kernels, and underneath all of it, judgment that nobody ever wrote down. Nobody has finished this. That is the appeal.
See what we are building
Nobody here owns a sliver of this. You pick the approach, build it, and watch it turn up in real drawings. We work remotely across the USA and get in a room together for work weeks, because some problems move faster at one table than in any number of threads.
See what we are hiring forThe team
Everyone here builds. The list keeps getting longer, and you would still know every name on it by the end of your first week.
Rev. A
Flip a coin. If tails, this attack does nothing, and nobody can reproduce why.
Heal 30 damage from this card. It will need another hotfix next turn.
Has read the whole stack trace. Twice.
Rev. A
Your opponent's next attack costs one more symbol, and needs a diagram.
Discard every symbol attached to this card. It was technical debt.
Has the whole system in their head, and on the whiteboard.
Rev. A
Draw a card. Schedule a follow-up.
Look at your opponent's hand. Write down what they actually need.
Can explain what Drafter does in one sentence, and has, several thousand times.
Rev. A
Move any damage on this card somewhere better. The total stays the same.
If this card was played this turn, this attack does 30 more damage.
Leaves every file a little better than they found it.
Rev. A
Mark one of your opponent's attacks. It can't be used until it's revised.
Discard any number of cards from your hand. They were nice to have.
Will ask what problem this solves. Then ask again.
Rev. A
Your opponent reveals their hand. Leave one comment on each card.
Both players shuffle their hands into their decks. Nobody is happy about it.
Approves with comments.
Rev. A
Explain this card's weakness out loud. It has none until your next turn.
Flip a coin. If it lands on its edge, this attack does 70 more damage.
Wrote the test first. Probably.
Rev. A
Everything your opponent plays next turn is measured from this card.
Flip a coin for each part in the assembly. If they're all heads, it fits.
Can tell a good drawing from across the room.
Rev. A
Connect this card to one on your Bench. They can finally talk to each other.
Send one of your opponent's cards to CAD and back. It returns with a drawing.
Speaks every CAD format, and translates between them.
Rev. A
Damage is determined after the interview.
Blank until you apply.
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For a century a drafting room carried what an engineer meant down to the floor. CAD made design faster and left that job behind, and the distance between the two has been widening ever since: slowly, then all at once. Closing it is the argument this company is built on, and it is why this work matters more than the tooling makes it sound.
Read our philosophyOpen roles
Every role here works directly with the founding team, on the product itself. If none of them fit, the note underneath is not a formality.
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Own the interface where 3D models become 2D drawings, working directly with the founding team.
We hire when we meet the right person more often than when we post a role. Tell us what you would want to own here, and what you have built before.
