Principal Software Engineer (Graphics)

Location: Home China; other location: Shanghai

Company

hirify.global develops technology and engineering software platforms for electronic design and engineering workflows.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain graphics and visualization capabilities for MSC Apex and related engineering desktop applications.
• Implement rendering, model display, selection, interaction, view manipulation, annotation, color mapping, and visualization workflows.
• Integrate graphics frameworks, rendering pipelines, visualization libraries, geometry kernels, data models, and product workflows.
• Diagnose rendering defects, performance bottlenecks, memory problems, threading issues, and platform-specific visualization behavior.
• Own assigned components, contribute to design direction, code reviews, test planning, and integration activities.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers while remaining hands-on.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computational Engineering, Computer-Aided Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related engineering discipline.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience delivering commercial or enterprise desktop applications, preferably in engineering, CAD/CAE, scientific visualization, or graphics-intensive software.
• Strong production experience with C++ and Windows desktop application development.
• Experience with graphics technologies such as VTK, Ogre, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, HOOPS, OpenSceneGraph, or equivalent frameworks.
• Knowledge of scene graphs, rendering pipelines, mesh visualization, camera transformations, picking, clipping, transparency, lighting, materials, and large-model visualization.
• Experience with debugging, profiling, automated graphics testing, performance optimization, GPU resource management, and hardware compatibility validation.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role focused on hands-on technical ownership.
• Collaboration with senior engineers, architects, product teams, and QA.
• Work on engineering software and graphics functionality intended for reliable, maintainable, and user-friendly desktop applications.