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The successful candidate will collaborate with senior engineers, architects, product teams, and QA to deliver reliable, maintainable, and user-friendly graphics functionality for engineering desktop applications.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign, develop, and maintain graphics and visualization capabilities for engineering desktop applications, with emphasis on reliability, usability, performance, and maintainability.\nImplement graphics features related to rendering, model display, selection, interaction, view manipulation, annotation, color mapping, and visualization workflows.\nWork with graphics frameworks, rendering pipelines, and visualization libraries to support product requirements and improve user workflows.\nAnalyze and resolve graphics defects, rendering issues, performance bottlenecks, memory problems, and platform-specific visualization behavior.\nCollaborate with architects and principal engineers on design direction while taking ownership of assigned components and feature implementation.\nSupport code reviews, technical discussions, test planning, and integration activities for graphics-related features.\nProvide technical guidance to junior engineers when needed, while continuing to contribute as a hands-on developer.\nRequired Qualifications\nEducation\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering discipline.\nExperience\n10+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise desktop applications, preferably in engineering, CAD/CAE, scientific visualization, or graphics-intensive software domains.\nStrong experience developing graphics or visualization features, including rendering workflows, interactive model display, view manipulation, selection, highlighting, annotations, and graphics performance improvements.\nStrong hands-on experience with C++ in production-quality desktop application development.\nExperience implementing graphics components that integrate with geometry kernels, rendering services, data models, visualization pipelines, and product workflows.\nExperience with graphics and visualization technologies such as VTK, Ogre, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, HOOPS, OpenSceneGraph, or equivalent rendering frameworks used in engineering applications.\nUnderstanding of scene graphs, rendering pipelines, mesh visualization, camera/view transformations, picking/selection, clipping, transparency, lighting, materials, and large-model visualization concepts.\nExperience diagnosing graphics defects, rendering artifacts, UI responsiveness issues, memory leaks, threading problems, and performance bottlenecks in complex desktop applications.\nExperience with Windows desktop application development and graphics behavior across different hardware and display configurations.\nExperience optimizing rendering performance for large engineering models, including level-of-detail strategies, batching, culling, GPU resource management, and frame-rate analysis.\nTechnical Skills\nStrong proficiency in C++ for graphics-enabled engineering software development.\nHands-on experience with graphics programming concepts such as rendering pipelines, scene graphs, model display, camera/view transformations, picking, selection, highlighting, clipping, transparency, lighting, materials, and display updates.\nExperience with visualization and rendering technologies such as VTK, Ogre, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, HOOPS, OpenSceneGraph, or comparable graphics infrastructure.\nKnowledge of mesh and geometry visualization, tessellation, finite element model display, contour plots, scalar/vector field visualization, annotations, color maps, and engineering post-processing workflows.\nExperience optimizing rendering performance for large-scale engineering models, including level-of-detail, batching, frustum/occlusion culling, GPU memory usage, draw-call reduction, and frame-rate analysis.\nStrong debugging skills using tools such as Visual Studio Debugger, WinDbg, GDB, LLDB, crash dump analysis, stack traces, graphics debuggers, logging frameworks, and diagnostic instrumentation.\nExperience with memory, performance, and graphics diagnostics using tools such as Valgrind, AddressSanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, Intel VTune, Windows Performance Analyzer, Linux perf, RenderDoc, NVIDIA Nsight, AMD Radeon GPU Profiler, or similar profiling tools.\nFamiliarity with automated testing strategies for graphics components, including regression testing, image comparison, performance validation, and platform/hardware compatibility testing.\nSoft Skills\nStrong communication and collaboration skills.\nProblem-solving and analytical thinking.\n• Ability to work independently and in a team environment.N/A\nWe’re doing work that matters. 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