Metal Game Ecosystem Engineer

  • Austin, TX
  • Posted 60+ days ago | Updated 6 hours ago

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

iPad
Mentorship
Real-time
User Experience
iPhone
Management
Workflow
Collaboration
Fluency
C
C++
Machine Learning (ML)
DirectX
CUDA
Computer Graphics
UI
Artificial Intelligence
Physics
Animation
CPU
GPU
API

Job Details

Apple's Metal Game Ecosystem team is looking for an engineer to join our team with a passion for performance and quality. You will work closely with 3rd party game and game engine developers as they optimize their renderers for Apple's unified gaming platform including Mac, iPhone and iPad. You will be the technical voice of the game ecosystem back to Apple and help to inform future features and projects.

Description GGML's Metal Ecosystem team is looking for graphics software engineers to join us, working together with the world's leading high end game and game engine developers. We represent the technical voice of the game developer ecosystem back into Apple and help provide input to the direction of future Apple products. We work hands on with game makers and 3rd party game engine developers. We work together with the GGML team and game developers to identify key features and optimizations. We help developers discover what's possible. Are you ready to join us as we engineer the future of gaming on Metal? You will partner with external game and game engine developers to analyze their workloads and identify performance improvements, feature suggestions, memory usage, API usage and mentorship with clear agreed upon goals on how to improve the player experience. Collaborate in person or virtually with engineers in real time using Apple's developer tools and deep knowledge of our architecture along with the developer's knowledge of their application. Improve the developer and user experience through engineering engagements on all Apple products with a GPU from iPhone to Mac. Define your goals and timeline to align with the external developers and work together to deliver. Act as the de facto specialist in Metal to the developer, including but not limited to providing informative workshops, direct contributions to source code, insight into actionable improvements and workflows. Regularly collaborate with internal teams outside of GGML to highlight opportunities with developers and drive improvements to the platform.

Minimum Qualifications
  • Fluent in C/C++ with strong OS fundamentals
  • Solid understanding of CPU and GPU architectures
  • Experience with games, graphics, machine-learning programming
  • Experience with at least one low-level graphics or compute API (Metal/DirectX12/Vulkan/CUDA)

Preferred Qualifications
  • Deep knowledge of modern computer graphics techniques including ray tracing
  • Experience with multi-platform game and engine development (supporting UI/AI/physics/animation/audio/inputs)
  • Experience optimizing performance on CPU and GPU architectures
  • Experience with Metal API and Metal developer tools
  • Experience working in the games industry

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