Software Design Engineer

WORLD'S GREATEST TECH COMPANY SEEKS DEV

As part of a project involving improving interoperability between popular graphics libraries and Windows 8, we are looking for a Software Developer for a six month (potentially renewable) contract. The person will be offsite, and can be located offshore as well so long as there is some overlap with our business hours and they have good communication skills in English.

We are looking for an expert programmer who is familiar with graphics and in particular 3D technologies. The mission of this organization is to increase the interoperability with third party platforms, and in general to foster the growth of technologies based on open standards. As part of that, the Engineer will work on the interop surface between DirectX, OpenGL/WebGL, and popular frameworks that build on top of those APIs, like three.js, Cinder, Cocos2D, and potentially many others. Deliverables will include improving said frameworks, and/or developing brand new tools that increase the productivity, security and performance of applications based on 3D.

Required:

- Strong C++ coding skills and experience in platform/system level development.
- Hands on experience developing shaders for games or other graphics-heavy applications

Desirable:

- GLSL and/or HLSL a plus
- Familiarity with performance tuning and investigation techniques