Lead GPU SDK Engineer.

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Nice-To-Have Background

• Responsibilities:

• Lead architecture and design of GPU SDK components and libraries for advanced rendering and compute applications

• Drive technical direction for upscaling technologies and graphics features

• Mentor engineering team and establish best practices for SDK development

• Strategic partnership with hardware architects and ISVs on SDK roadmap

• Design and implement advanced rendering techniques using HLSL compute shaders and graphics pipelines

• Architect scalable API interfaces for external developers and partners

• Lead cross-platform performance optimization across multiple GPU architectures

• Define validation frameworks and quality standards for SDK releases

• Requirements:

• Expert HLSL and Direct3D 12

• Hands-on experience with DXGI Swap Chain implementation and proxy-based override mechanisms

• Deep GPU pipeline and compute architecture knowledge

• Advanced GPU profiling and performance analysis

• Expert parallel algorithms and optimization patterns

• Proven SDK/API architecture and delivery

• Expert C++ (C++17/20) with modern design patterns

• Cross-platform development expertise

• HIP and ROCm programming

• Shader compilation pipelines and IRs (DXIL, SPIR-V)

• Advanced GPU micro-optimizations

• ML frameworks and GPU acceleration

• Development tooling and CI/CD automation

• Validation frameworks and test automation

• Deep GPU hardware architecture knowledge (AMD RDNA, NVIDIA, Intel)

• Vulkan, Metal experience

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