Graphics Software Engineer - Pipeline/Tooling, Reality Labs (Avatars)

Reality Labs at Meta is building products that make it easier for people to connect with the ones they love most, enjoy top-notch, wire-free VR, and push the future of computing platforms. We are a team of world-class experts developing and shipping products at the intersection of hardware, software and content. As a Graphics Software Engineer on the Reality Labs (Avatars) team at Meta, you can help push the boundaries of how people represent themselves and work, play and connect. Connecting with others is at the heart of the metaverse, and we're the people helping to define what that means.

Graphics Software Engineer - Pipeline/Tooling, Reality Labs (Avatars) Responsibilities

• Develop innovative graphics frameworks, algorithms, and tools to maximize avatar quality and performance
• Partner closely with various infra, runtime, technical artist, and product teams across Meta to create real-time asset pipeline architecture
• Build tools and pipelines for generating user-customizable digital representations of people, animals, and objects targeting variable rendering parameters and end-user surfaces
• Write high-quality, performant, and maintainable code
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver innovative augmented reality / mixed reality and mobile products
• Document and support graphics and tooling features

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of graphics software engineering experience or 4+ years of graphics software engineering experience with PhD
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience
• Experience with C/C++ programming
• Object-oriented and component-based design experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AAA Games or computer animated films, working on Asset Pipeline subsystems, performance optimizations, the Game experience, Tooling, or Middleware
• Experience with low level performance profiling and optimization
• Experience with character animation and behavior
• Experience implementing 3D graphics features such as lighting, effects, shaders and other low-level systems
• Experience with tools such as Maya, Houdini, Blender, 3Ds Max, Arnold, RenderMan, or Cycles
• Experience with any of DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL/Metal
• Experience with AI and/or AI tooling in a game development context
• Experience with real world node-graph optimization problems and/or Compiler problems

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About Meta

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today-beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

$85.10/hour to $251,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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