Graphics Software Engineer (Flexible Location)

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Job Description

At SUSE, we are passionate about Open Source, and we are major contributors to many upstream projects. In our daily work, we value creativity and innovation, while staying focused on delivering business results. Our engineering organization is a global team from almost all continents. SUSE has a wide field of advanced technologies and offers developers with an open and curious mind a great opportunity to apply and grow their skills.

The Hardware Enablement Team inside SUSE is a group of a dozen people in different locations. Apart from core graphics components development, the expertise of the team is ranging from small peripherals to crucial system components (e.g. GPUs) to specific hardware architectures (Arm, IBM PowerPC).

Objective of the role

A Graphics Software Engineer is responsible for maintaining and further development of the graphics stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE distributions. Some example projects for this role include improvements in remote desktop applications (VNC, RDP), Wayland and Mesa.

Responsibilities:

• Development of new code and backporting to older releases.

• Bug analysis and bug fixing.

• Close collaboration with upstream communities.

• Technical discussions with SUSE partners and other stakeholders

Required skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or comparable qualifications.

• Excellent knowledge of the C programming language.

• Open source community participation.

• Experience with system-level programming.

• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

• Good communication skills.

Recommended Skills:

• Knowledge of the Wayland protocol and overall system design.

• Knowledge of Mesa.

• Knowledge of OpenGL, EGL and/or Vulkan.

• Shell and/or Python programming.

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