Embedded Engineer, Graphics

Snap Inc is a technology company. We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate. Snap contributes to human progress by empowering people to express themselves live in the moment learn about the world and have fun together. The Companys three core products are Snapchat a visual messaging app that enhances your relationships with friends family and the world; Lens Studio an augmented reality platform that powers AR across Snapchat and other services; and its AR glasses Spectacles.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in embedded system graphics architecture to join our team at Snap inc!

What youll do:

• Lead or participate in the design and architecture of system software in both prototype and shipping consumer products.

• Implement and maintain software to efficiently program embedded GPU and display processing hardware in a compute-constraint embedded environment

• Collaborate with the SoC team to design evaluate and write software for purpose-built GPU solutions

Knowledge Skills & Abilities:

• Experience with GPU architecture; programming debugging and optimizing real time graphics workloads

• Proficiency in system-level programming on a Linux-based operating system

• Software development process skills including: source control bug tracking and design documentation

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Strong analytical and software debugging skills

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a relevant technical field such as computer science or electrical engineering or equivalent years of experience

• 5 years of experience with system software development

• Proficiency in programming C and C on Linux

• Experience with Linux graphics driver architecture implementation and debugging

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with optimizing and tracing graphics performance on mobile GPUs

• Experience with the Linux display driver subsystem (drm KMS)

• Experience with embedded display hardware

• Experience with reading hardware schematics and implementing/debug drivers based on that

• Experience with a modern graphics API (i.e. Vulkan) and an implementation at the driver level

• Contributions to an open source system software project (e.g. Mesa Linux DRM)

• Advanced degree in a relevant field such as computer science or electrical engineering

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