Application Software Engineer, 3D Computer Graphics
Adobe Software
JOB LEVEL
P30EMPLOYEE ROLE
Individual ContributorThe Opportunity
We are looking for an Application Software Engineer with a strong understanding of common UI toolkits, familiarity with 3D graphics applications and a deep sense of software craftsmanship to participate in the design, implementation, and deployment of our next generation multi surface collaborative 3D graphics software for creative professionals. Leveraging various technologies to visualize, create, capture, and generate 3D content, we believe this new product will bring unique and artist’s friendly 3D capabilities to creative professionals through a deep connection with flagship applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.
We are a tight knit team developing state-of-the-art software and delivering robust, fast, and resource-conscious components to product teams.
Our team will closely collaborate with Adobe's UX design and research teams to turn groundbreaking ideas and technologies into shipping features.
What you'll Do
- Work collaboratively with UX designers, engineers and researchers to architect, develop, maintain and optimize new software solutions
- Design and implement modern algorithms by writing robust, high-performance code
- Develop experiments to explore tradeoffs between various possible implementations
- Identify and fix application bugs and performance bottlenecks
- Review code on a near daily basis and give detailed, constructive feedback
- Work closely with many different product and teams across Adobe to integrate software across organizational boundaries
- Provide leadership to the group and mentorship to junior-level engineers
What you need to succeed
- 5+ years writing production code
- Deep knowledge of C++ (C++17 preferred) design patterns
- Experience writing cross platform code
- Experience with design of high-level APIs and frameworks
- DAG scene graph design and/or Entity Component System Serialization
- Experience in profiling, debugging and testing native applications
- Experience with optimization and profiling tools
- Experience in at least one scripting language, Python in particular
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience or education
- Bonus expertise: Universal Scene Description (USD) API and frameworks, Modern graphics APIs (OpenGL, DirectX, Vulkan, Metal), Qt application framework, and/or 3D content creation tools (e.g. Maya, Cinema4D)
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