Shader and Effects Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a mid-senior level Keynote Shader & Effects Engineer for a 12-month remote contract position, responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing shaders and visual effects for a custom animation rendering engine while collaborating with designers to ensure high-quality performance.

Key responsibilities:

• Designing, prototyping, and shipping new shader-driven visual effects for the Keynote animation engine
• Collaborating with designers to translate creative direction into performant realtime effects
• Writing and maintaining production-quality Metal shaders optimized for silicon GPUs using state-of-the-art graphics techniques

Required qualifications:

• Proven ability to write highly performant realtime graphics shader code using modern techniques
• Strong grasp of the realtime rendering pipeline, including rasterization and GPU/CPU synchronization
• Deep, hands-on experience with Metal, with exceptional GLSL/Vulkan candidates considered
• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience/skills
• Track record of owning a subsystem or feature area end to end