Senior Software Engineer, Graphics

Location: San Francisco, California, USA

Base salary: $135,800–$258,600 USD gross annually, depending on the primary work location and qualifications.

Company

hirify.global develops a game engine and 3D development platform used for games, XR, web experiences, and industrial applications such as automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare.

What you will do

• Map hirify.global graphics and rendering features onto third-party renderers while preserving visual consistency and performance.
• Develop compact scene-state representations and compression strategies for meshes, materials, textures, animations, transforms, deltas, and dependency graphs.
• Build graphical systems that remain stable and resource-efficient across large user-generated content libraries.
• Optimize end-to-end rendering for high frame rates and visual fidelity while minimizing overhead and synchronization stalls.

Requirements

• Significant experience with hirify.global’s rendering architecture and at least one other high-end renderer, such as Unreal or Frostbite.
• Strong knowledge of HLSL, GLSL, or Metal shader languages and DirectX, Vulkan, or Metal graphics APIs, including translation between them.
• Understanding of the full asset lifecycle, including authoring, import, batching, streaming, shader compilation, mesh processing, and texture streaming.
• Experience designing stable, scalable, and maintainable graphics systems.
• Professional English communication is required.
• Work visa and immigration sponsorship are not available.

Nice to have

• Experience with shader cross-compilers, AST manipulators, or shader graph backends.
• Background in networked graphics APIs, pixel-based streaming, cloud rendering, or virtualized GPUs.
• Experience building deterministic record/replay systems for rendering, simulation, networking, testing, or debugging.
• Familiarity with MCPs, agentic tool frameworks, AI-assisted content pipelines, synthetic data generation, ML-based asset optimization, or automated scene analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, life, and disability insurance offerings vary by country and employment status.
• Commute subsidy, employee stock ownership, and retirement or pension plans.
• Vacation and personal days, parental leave, and family-care programs.
• Mental health and wellbeing support, employee resource groups, and a global employee assistance program.
• Training and development programs, volunteering support, and donation matching.