Graphics Software Engineer Consumer Devices

About the Team

The Graphics team builds the graphics runtimes and rendering systems that power next-generation user interfaces and visual experiences. We work across rendering pipelines display composition and GPU optimization to deliver beautiful performant and reliable real-time graphics across devices. Our work spans from early architecture through production partnering closely with camera vision and UX teams to create seamless visual interactions.

About the Role

As a Graphics engineer you will design implement and optimize real-time rendering pipelines and graphics frameworks for 2D and 3D applications. Youll own the end-to-end display and composition pathcovering swapchains frame pacing vsync color/HDR and zero-copy buffer flowwhile driving system reliability and performance at scale.

Were looking for engineers who combine deep technical expertise in rendering and GPU systems with a strong product sense for crafting responsive high-quality user experiences.

This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of four days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Build and evolve graphics runtimes and libraries (text/raster image pipelines materials/shaders scene graph) for app/UI developers.

• Design implement and optimize real-time rendering pipelines (2D/3D) using Vulkan or OpenGL ES.

• Own the display and composition path including swapchains frame pacing vsync color/HDR and zero-copy buffer flow.

• Establish performance and quality bars through GPU/CPU profiling frame-time analysis and optimization for memory power and thermal budgets.

• Collaborate with camera vision and UX teams to enable compositing effects and media/compute interoperability.

• Drive reliability through robust startup/shutdown crash capture graceful GPU resets and automated graphics tests in CI.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have deep experience shipping graphics or high-performance systems on Linux Android or iOS devices.

• Have built or contributed to UI/rendering frameworks.

• Are familiar with Vulkan Metal or OpenGL ES.

• Are proficient in C/C and modern shading languages.

• Understand display pipelines and windowing/compositors (e.g. DRM/KMS Wayland SurfaceFlinger/HWC macOS/iOS render server IOMobileFramebuffer).

• Have a proven track record shipping real-time rendering features with tight latency power and memory constraints.

• Are fluent with profiling and debugging tools (RenderDoc Xcode Metal frame debugger perf/ftrace/Instruments GDB/LLDB).

• Enjoy working closely with designers to balance visual ambition and engineering constraints.

• (Nice to have) Experience with text and 2D stacks (Skia FreeType/HarfBuzz CoreGraphics) or vector/raster pipelines.

• (Nice to have) Familiarity with color management and HDR (ICC color profiles wide-gamut workflows).

• (Nice to have) Experience with compute/graphics interop (Vulkan compute CUDA/OpenCL/Metal) and image processing chains.

• (Nice to have) Exposure to graphics driver or Mesa stack development or kernel/media paths.

• (Nice to have) Experience with robotics AR/VR wearables or other real-time resource-constrained products.

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