GPU Developer Technology Engineer (Vulkan)

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GPU Developer Technology Engineer (Vulkan)

The Role

The AMD Productization team works closely with external software developers and publishers to create some of the best games on the planet. We help them to fully exploit the technical capabilities of AMD's hardware products. Our aim is to raise the standards for gaming graphics and performance. We do everything in our power to make the user understand why they were right to buy AMD.

The Person

The ideal candidate is a highly skilled software engineer, strong in 3D math, fluent in C and C++, graphics APIs, and the efficient use of discrete GPUs, APUs, and CPUs. You have an interest in machine learning and are excited at the idea of working on large game engines and state of the art technology. You are team-driven and motivated to do things others might find too difficult.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the external game development partners to integrate AMD gaming technologies into their titles
• Analyze, Understand and Debug hard to find problems in complex game engines.
• Use low level graphics APIs to write efficient shaders.

Preferred Experience

• Minimum 2 years of full-time (post grad) experience creating efficient C/C++ game code for Windows and knows all about algorithms and data structures, language features, standard libraries and writing easy-to-understand code
• Has practical hands-on experience with DirectX-class development tools and techniques for Windows
• Has strong graphics code optimization skills, in particular shader code optimizations
• Understands that requirements are rarely perfect and is willing to extract the spirit of the requirement to make the system or software better
• Has excellent written and verbal English skills
• Is willing occasionally to travel domestically and internationally

The Following Experiences Are Optional But Highly Desired

• GCN / RDNA graphics or game console architecture experience.
• Experience with Vulkan and/or DirectX 12 graphics APIs.
• Game engine or game rendering framework experience.
• Machine Learning background.

Academic Credentials

Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, or equivalent

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