Software Engineering - Software Engineer V

Job Description: Senior Graphics Engineer

REMOTE
- option to work in Pittsburgh office if desired

Description
Summary
We are seeking a senior graphics engineer to help drive the development of a modern, high-performance rendering engine at the core of bleeding-edge research experiences within Meta's Codec Avatars lab. The engine is the foundation for a growing set of research experiences, and the role centers on advancing its rendering capabilities, including performance, features, and new techniques, while integrating established research from across the lab and the wider company. You will work alongside an experienced team of researchers and engineers to take state of the art rendering and integration efforts from concept to polished, demonstrable results.

Job Responsibilities
Develop and optimize features in a modern, low-level Vulkan rendering engine
Profile and improve GPU and CPU performance across the rendering pipeline, including multi-GPU real-time rendering and multithreaded XR rendering
Implement and improve advanced rendering techniques such as deferred shading, ray tracing, and HDR
Push the limits of display quality, including high refresh-rate rendering, with color-accurate and HDR display
Integrate the engine with research and adjacent systems from across the lab and company
Investigate, triage, and fix bugs across the rendering stack and the experiences built with it
Contribute to tooling, build health, and cross-platform support across Linux, Windows, and Mac
Write documentation and help prepare components for potential external release

Required Skills
Strong programming skills in C++
Substantial, hands-on experience with modern Vulkan development
Experience with desktop graphics development
Solid grasp of real-time rendering fundamentals, including the graphics pipeline, shading models, and GPU architecture
Experience profiling and optimizing graphics performance on both GPU and CPU
Experience with version control systems such as Git or Mercurial
Excellent communication skills and strong attention to detail

Preferred Skills
Game engine development experience
Experience with neural rendering, radiance fields, or Gaussian splatting
Experience with advanced rendering techniques such as ray tracing, deferred shading, or HDR
Experience working with modern AI tooling (strongly preferred)
Cross-platform development experience across Linux, Windows, and Mac (strongly preferred)
Experience with desktop VR development using OpenXR (strongly preferred)
Experience with additional graphics APIs such as OpenGL, D3D12, or Metal, or with mobile graphics development, particularly Android
Experience integrating third-party graphics SDKs such as DLSS or other upscaling technologies
Experience developing netcode for real-time or networked applications
Experience with PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorRT, or with Python interop such as pybind11
Experience submitting code alongside academic publications at conferences such as CVPR or SIGGRAPH
Experience open-sourcing new or maintaining existing open source projects, or with build systems such as CMake, Bazel, or Buck

Education/Experience
Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related technical fields, or equivalent practical experience

EEO:

“Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”