The gap between a design spec and a shipped screen is where Gray's quality lives. You sit in that gap. You will build the app's most expressive surfaces — the orb, the wipe-text reveal, the console — pixel-perfectly, in React Native.
What you will own
Build the expressive layer: orb states, spoken-word text reveal, live console rendering
Translate design specs into React Native with nothing lost
Own animation performance — everything at 60fps on a three-year-old phone
Maintain the component library shared across app and marketing
Prototype new interactions fast enough to kill bad ideas cheaply
What you bring
You live between design and engineering and refuse to pick a side
Strong React/React Native, with animation depth (Reanimated, shaders, canvas)
An eye that catches a 1px misalignment in review
Shipped consumer-quality motion work
Nice to have
WebGL/shader experience for orb-like rendering
You've maintained a design system in code
What we offer
Meaningful equity. Every role carries a real stake in Layer Gray, with a 10-year exercise window.
Remote, worldwide. Work from anywhere. We hire for the role, not the time zone.
Hardware budget. $4,000 for your machines, plus a home server allowance — you should run Gray on your own box.
Flexible time off. 25 days minimum, and we mean minimum. We track outcomes, not hours.
Health covered. Full medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents, wherever you are.
Two offsites a year. The whole crew, one room, twice a year. The rest of the time, async.
Model subscriptions. Claude, GPT, and friends — every frontier model subscription, paid.
Learning budget. $2,000 a year for books, courses, and conferences. No approval theatre.
About Gray
Gray is voice-first AI you operate like a terminal. You speak; it runs real work across your machines — SSH sessions, multi-agent jobs, files, scheduled tasks — then speaks back. It is self-hosted, private by architecture, and built for the people who run the internet’s plumbing. Gray is made by Layer Gray, Inc.