Senior Graphics Engineer

🖥️ Senior Graphics Engineer

📍 Location: 100% Remote (USA) | Optional onsite at Pittsburgh office only if desired

📄 Employment Type: W2 / 1099

⏳ Duration: Long-Term Contract

We are seeking a

Senior Graphics Engineer

to help drive the development of a modern, high-performance rendering engine powering next-generation research experiences within the Codec Avatars Lab.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and optimize features in a modern Vulkan rendering engine

• Profile and improve GPU and CPU performance across the rendering pipeline

• Implement advanced rendering techniques such as deferred shading, ray tracing, and HDR

• Support multi-GPU real-time rendering and multithreaded XR rendering

• Integrate rendering systems with research platforms and adjacent technologies

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the rendering stack

• Contribute to tooling, documentation, build health, and cross-platform support

🔹 Required Skills:

✅ Strong C++ programming experience

✅ Hands-on expertise with Vulkan

✅ Desktop graphics development experience

✅ Deep understanding of real-time rendering, GPU architecture, and shading models

✅ Experience profiling and optimizing GPU/CPU performance

✅ Version control experience (Git, Mercurial, etc.)

✅ Excellent communication skills

🔹 Preferred Skills:

⭐ Game engine development

⭐ Ray tracing, deferred shading, HDR rendering

⭐ Neural rendering, Gaussian splatting, radiance fields

⭐ AI tooling experience

⭐ OpenXR / Desktop VR development

⭐ OpenGL, D3D12, Metal, or Android graphics

⭐ DLSS and other upscaling technologies

⭐ PyTorch, CUDA, TensorRT, Python interoperability

⭐ CMake, Bazel, Buck, and open-source project experience

📩 Interested candidates, please share your updated resume and contact details to mohamedrafi.j@highbrowtechnology.com