Senior WebGL/Three.js/Babylon.js Developer

This role is for our client, who are reimagining video security for the modern world. Their cloud-native platform uses computer vision and AI to help businesses stay safe, make smarter decisions, and move faster; from real-time alerts to seamless clip sharing and multi-site visibility.

You’ll be joining an ambitious, fast-moving team that values clarity, craftsmanship, and impact. Every person there has a voice, ships meaningful work, and helps shape how AI can make the world safer and more connected.

Responsibilities

• Architect and scale high-performance React and TypeScript applications built for real-time surveillance operations.
• Build UI components for video playback, timeline scrubbing, and multi-camera grid management.
• Optimize client-side rendering, network bandwidth, and browser memory usage when streaming high-frequency data.
• Partner closely with Product, Design, and Machine Learning engineers to transform complex AI detection capabilities into simple user experiences.
• Establish frontend architecture patterns, maintain testing standards, and mentor team members.

Skills And Qualifications

• Experience building production web applications in React and TypeScript
• Deep understanding of frontend performance profiling, browser memory management, and client-side optimization
• Hands-on experience working with real-time data streams (WebSockets, SSE, or WebRTC)
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including modular architecture, state management, and automated testing
• High bar for UI detail, usability, and web accessibility is a plus
• Experience with video technologies on the web (HLS, WebRTC, MSE, or Canvas/WebGL video rendering) is a plus
• Experience building spatial or location-aware dashboards using mapping tools (e.g., Mapbox, Leaflet) is a plus
• Prior experience in fast-paced startup environments or developer-centric B2B SaaS platforms is a plus

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package
• Early-stage equity in a rapidly growing company
• Referral bonuses
• Team dinners and regular team off-sites
• The latest Apple products and unlimited tech stack

The company is on a mission to transform a $50B+ legacy industry by bringing the power of cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and computer vision to real-world security and operations. From firearm detection to intelligent access control, our AI-native platform turns every camera and sensor into a smart system that enhances safety, efficiency, and awareness.

Key Responsibilities

Frontend & Extension Development

• Build and maintain highly responsive, modern user interfaces using React.js for web applications, browser extensions, and Electron-based desktop clients.

• Architect and develop modular, reusable UI components using Material-UI (MUI / Joy UI) and styled-components/Emotion.

• Manage complex multi-target build pipelines (Web, Extension, Electron) using Webpack and Craco.

AI Integration & Engineering

• Seamlessly integrate Generative AI capabilities into the frontend, including AI-driven chatbots, contextual AI suggestions, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) interfaces.

• Collaborate closely with backend and AI specialists to consume AI-powered REST APIs and WebSocket streams, ensuring fluid and responsive user experiences.

• Implement robust markdown and code rendering (e.g., react-markdown) for rich AI conversational outputs.

Real-Time Data & State Management

• Implement low-latency, real-time communication features using Socket.IO for chat and collaborative functions.

• Efficiently manage complex application state, data fetching, and caching using modern tools like React Query and Axios.

Quality & Collaboration

• Work within a monorepo/workspace structure to maintain distinct client, component, and extension packages.

• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality, performance, and enterprise security standards.

• Collaborate with teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies for rapid and structured delivery.

Required Skills:

• Core Languages: Proficiency in JavaScript (ES6+) and TypeScript.

• Frontend Frameworks: Strong, hands-on experience with React.js (Hooks, Context), React Query, and React Router.

• Styling & UI: Deep understanding of HTML5, CSS3, and CSS-in-JS libraries (e.g., styled-components, react-jss). Hands-on experience with MUI (Material UI / Joy UI) is highly preferred.

• Architecture & Build: Experience configuring and optimizing builds with Webpack and Craco. Familiarity with npm workspaces/monorepos.

• Real-time & APIs: Ability to design and implement robust client-side integrations with RESTful APIs and WebSockets (Socket.IO).

• Agile & Workflow: Experience working with Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Preferred/Bonus Skills:

• Experience in building and packaging Browser Extensions and/or Electron applications.

• Genuine curiosity and awareness of Generative AI workflows (e.g., prompt engineering concepts, handling streaming AI responses).

• Experience with rich text editing or markdown rendering in React.

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World's Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. 

This role is part of Cognizant IOA (Intuitive Operations and Automation) — and more specifically, a product team with its own origin story. We started as Matterway, a German startup building automation software from scratch. We were acquired by Cognizant, but we kept our team, our culture, our pace, and our way of working. We move like a startup, think like a startup, and now do it with the backing of a global company. 

We combine human expertise with intelligent automation, ML operations, and digital experience solutions to help technology and digital-native companies build smarter, more adaptive operating models. 

What's the opportunity? 

We are looking for Senior Product Engineers to join our team. We're a tight crew of 5 senior engineers, from different corners of the world. We're hiring 3 more people, and those people will shape what this team becomes. 

We're building a platform to support the agentification of our operations. You'll work across a suite of products including a cloud platform for process optimization, desktop application, browser extension, and specialized AI agents. 

This is genuinely frontier work: we don't follow AI trends, we implement them. New model drops on a Monday; we've prototyped with it by Wednesday. 

We believe this is the most exciting time to join. Be part of the founding R&D talent in this area and help set the technical bar for everything that comes next. 

What will you be doing? 

Your day-to-day responsibilities: 

• Design and evolve the core architecture of our platform 
• Set technical standards and take ownership of complex projects end-to-end 
• Work on a well-architected, fast-evolving TypeScript codebase using technologies such as React, Node.js, Electron, and GraphQL 
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to solve challenging technical and business problems, with real autonomy 
• Participate in the full development lifecycle: scoping, design, estimation, coding, testing, debugging, code reviews, maintenance, and support 
• Evaluate and implement proofs of concept using the latest AI tools and models 

You will know you're successful if: 

• You develop projects independently until they deliver their intended business value 
• You keep top-notch software quality standards about design, implementation, and documentation 
• You're the person who brings something new to the team's radar, a model, a technique, a tool, before anyone else has heard of it 

What makes you a great fit 

Must-haves: 

• Excellent English (C1+) with exceptional written and verbal communication 
• Strong proficiency with TypeScript across frontend and backend, including building and maintaining Node.js-based services 
• Experience in frontend development using modern frameworks such as Vue.js or React 
• Knowledge of any E2E testing framework such as Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, Cypress 
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of deliverables 
• Strong technical fundamentals, genuine intellectual curiosity, and a drive to keep getting better 
• You follow AI closely, not just as a user but as someone who reads the papers, watches the releases, and has opinions. You're excited about where this is going and want to be building at the edge of it 

Nice-to-haves: 

• Familiarity with AI-coding tooling (Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, etc.) 
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure or GCP) and infra-as-code deployment 
• Having built or maintained CI/CD pipelines or workflows, especially GitHub actions 

Why join us? 

• Be at the cutting edge of AI agents and applying LLMs to real-world use cases, not in theory but in production 
• Work on hard problems with high agency: your ideas get heard; your decisions get shipped 
• Join a small but growing internationally distributed team. 
• giving you real influence over how it evolves 
• The resources of a global company with the speed and culture of a startup 
• Remote-first set-up, with the option to work from one of our 13 locations in India: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Noida, Kolkata, Kochi, Coimbatore, Bhubaneswar, Mangalore, and Indore 
• Flexible working hours 
• Collaborative, pragmatic engineering culture focused on outcomes 
• Fast-growing team within Cognizant, with access to global resources and real career opportunities