Senior Rendering Development Engineer

The Role:

AMD Advanced Rendering and Engineering is a group of cross-disciplinary teams working at the intersection of graphics research and productization. Our mission is to create cutting-edge software to equip developers and publishers with the tools they need to build immersive, high-performance games optimized for AMD hardware.  

The person:

We’re looking for an experienced software engineer with a passion for realizing the full potential of breakthrough and emerging technologies. Candidates must have a strong technical background in GPU/APU programming, C++, and machine learning. Also essential to the role is the ability to collaborate both in and across teams, and knit together information from a range of specialist domains. Successful candidates will have significant influence over the technical direction, and the opportunity to start from first principles on new projects.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with research engineers to transform proof-of-concept prototypes into mature products at a very high level of quality.
• Collaborate with external game development partners to integrate these technologies into their titles.
• Optimize, extend, package and document high-level compute shader and C++ code.

Preferred Experience: 

• Computer science background with sufficient experience writing efficient, high-level shader code (HLSL SM6, GLSL, Slang, etc.) and modern C++ (17 and up)
• Knowledge of real-time rendering and graphics algorithms.
• Excellent written and verbal English skills.
• Knowledge of applied mathematics, especially linear algebra, geometry and trigonometry.
• Knowledge of modern game console and desktop GPU architectures
• Willing to occasionally travel, both domestically and internationally.

Desirable Experience: 

• Working understanding of low-level machine learning concepts and design patterns including automatic differentiation, computational graphs, tensor broadcasting, etc.

• Experience working with modern machine learning libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc.)

• Knowledge of physically based rendering algorithms (sampling and shading, light transport, etc.)

• Experience with modern graphics APIs such as DirectX 12 or Vulkan.

• Experience shipping AAA game titles.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Post-doctorate, PhD, Bachelor, or Master of Science degree or equivalent work experience. Emphasis on computer science, computer engineers, or applied mathematics with relevant experience preferred.

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