Software Engineer, 3D Rendering

About the job

Responsibilities

• Define the architecture for photoreal 3D rendering, including the integration of ray tracing, rasterization, and denoising across various graphics APIs (Metal, Vulkan, Direct3D, WebGPU).
• Develop light transport features such as global illumination, reflections, refraction, soft shadows, and volumetrics.
• Build a physically based model for materials, lights, and cameras, ensuring energy conservation and realistic light interactions.
• Own and ensure image quality through advanced sampling, antialiasing, accumulation, and denoising techniques, maintaining stability across video exports.
• Scale 3D scenes to production complexity using acceleration structures, instancing, culling, and efficient memory management.
• Integrate 3D rendering into Tesseract's existing video, motion graphics, and compositing pipeline, including ACES color management and render passes.
• Ensure predictable render costs and robust rendering performance through profiling, performance budgets, and headless batch rendering.
• Design 3D APIs that are intuitive for both human users and AI agents, providing clear scene representations, actionable errors, and accurate render cost estimations.
• Collaborate with engine, product, and AI teams, and contribute to hiring and growing the 3D rendering team.

Requirements

• Deep experience building physically based renderers in production environments (film, offline renderers, game engines).
• Strong command of light transport principles, including the rendering equation, Monte Carlo integration, importance sampling, material models, and denoising.
• Hands-on experience with GPU ray tracing, including acceleration structures (BVHs), hardware ray-tracing APIs (Metal, Vulkan, DXR), and compute shaders.
• Solid understanding of modern rasterization pipelines and hybrid rendering techniques.
• Hands-on experience with graphics APIs like Metal, Vulkan, Direct3D, or WebGPU, including compute shaders, GPU profiling, and debugging.
• Proficiency in Rust or C++ with strong skills in memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
• Strong mathematical foundations in graphics, including linear algebra, geometry, probability, and sampling.
• A keen eye for realism and the ability to identify and fix visual discrepancies.
• Experience owning complex technical projects and making architectural decisions in ambiguous problem spaces.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
• 401K with employer match
• Commuter Benefits
• Catered lunch