Lead Software Engineer (Graphics)

Location: Home China; other location: Shanghai

Company

hirify.global develops engineering software platforms and graphics capabilities for technical applications.

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.
• Collaborate with architects, principal engineers, product teams, QA, and senior engineers on design, testing, reviews, and integration.
• Provide technical guidance to junior engineers while remaining hands-on with feature implementation.

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 developing commercial or enterprise desktop applications, preferably in engineering, CAD/CAE, scientific visualization, or graphics-intensive domains.
• Strong production experience with C++ and graphics or visualization features.
• Experience with rendering pipelines, scene graphs, model display, camera transformations, picking, clipping, transparency, lighting, materials, mesh visualization, and large-model visualization.
• Experience with technologies such as VTK, Ogre, OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, HOOPS, OpenSceneGraph, or equivalent frameworks, including Windows desktop development.
• Experience optimizing large engineering models through level of detail, batching, culling, GPU resource management, draw-call reduction, and frame-rate analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor.
• Familiarity with automated graphics testing, image comparison, performance validation, and hardware compatibility testing.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time role focused on impactful engineering software development.
• Collaborative work with architects, product teams, QA, and engineering specialists.
• Opportunities to provide technical guidance while contributing directly to complex graphics functionality.