Graphics Software Engineer (Gaming)

Location: Virtual US; must live and work in the United States. The role is fully home-based, with occasional attendance at Intel sites based on business need. Remote work from other countries is not permitted.

Annual salary: $149,600–$284,580 USD.

Company

Develops CPU and GPU technologies, graphics software, developer tools, and gaming solutions.

What you will do

• Work with game developers and independent software vendors to improve game reliability, quality, and performance on Intel products.
• Collaborate with driver, feature-development, and hardware teams to resolve technical issues and influence future graphics technologies.
• Debug and optimize game code, game engines, graphics and compute shaders, APIs, feature integrations, and developer tools.
• Support profiling, debugging, and optimization workflows through feature integrations and technical tools.
• Create documentation and materials covering best practices for developing games on Intel hardware.
• Represent Intel at game developer conferences through technical discussions and presentations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience working with game technologies for GPUs and/or CPUs.
• Experience with modern game engine architecture, rendering pipelines, and graphics technologies.
• Experience with Windows profiling tools such as PIX, WPA, or GPUView.
• Programming experience in HLSL and C/C++, plus DirectX 12 or an equivalent explicit graphics API.
• Experience reporting reproducible bugs and following them through to resolution.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of Vulkan, GLSL, Nsight, Windows architecture, and x86 architecture.
• Understanding of the game development lifecycle.
• Experience creating and productizing technologies and tools.
• Experience optimizing Unreal Engine or using RenderDoc.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across graphics, gaming, hardware, product, and external developer teams.
• Focus on technical curiosity, data-driven problem solving, ownership, communication, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
• Fully home-based work model with occasional site attendance based on business needs.
• Competitive compensation with stock bonuses, health benefits, retirement benefits, and vacation.
• Opportunities to work on graphics, gaming, and AI technologies.