Senior Software Engineer - Rendering Infrastructure

Huawei Canada; Markham; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join a dynamic team focused on pushing the boundaries of rendering infrastructure. In this role, you will contribute to the design and implementation of software components for a cutting-edge cloud rendering service, ensuring high-quality and low-latency graphics experiences in areas like cloud gaming and the Metaverse. If you are passionate about optimizing performance and have a strong background in C/C++ programming, multi-threading, and GPU technologies, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking environment.

Qualifications

• Expertise in C/C++ with strong multi-threading and parallel programming skills.
• Knowledge of Linux kernel, GPU performance tuning, and graphics rendering.

Responsibilities

• Enhance performance of rendering infrastructure for cloud services.
• Design and implement software components for GPU virtualization and task scheduling.

Skills

C/C++ programming

multi-threading

parallel programming

Linux kernel knowledge

GPU performance tuning

graphics rendering pipeline

communication skills

Tools

Qemu

KVM

VirtualBox

Xen

Vulkan

LLVM

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Software Engineer.

About the team:

The Computing Data Application Acceleration Lab aims to create a leading global data analytics platform organized into three specialized teams using innovative programming technologies. This team focuses on full-stack innovations, including software-hardware co-design and optimizing data efficiency at both the storage and runtime layers. This team also develops next-generation GPU architecture for gaming, cloud rendering, VR/AR, and Metaverse applications.

One of the goals of this lab is to enhance algorithm performance and training efficiency across industries, fostering long-term competitiveness.

About the job:

1. As a key member of the team, you will work to push the performance boundary of our rendering infrastructure.
2. You will be contributing to design and implement some software components of Huawei cloud rendering service, such as GPU virtualization, task scheduling, frame buffer capture and streaming.
3. Together with the team, you will deliver high quality and low latency graphics user experience in the areas of cloud gaming, wireless AR/VR/XR, rendering farm, digital twin, and Metaverse.

About the ideal candidate:

1. Excellent C/C++ programming skills; Expert skill of multi-threading and parallel programming.
2. Good knowledge of Linux kernel, cache, memory management, and low level device driver; Windows D3D11/12, WDDM driver development and X server experience is an asset.
3. Excellent GPU performance tuning skills. Experience of profiling, debugging, pipeline optimization and H/W debugging tools.
4. Sound knowledge of graphics rendering pipeline (rasterization and ray-tracing); GPU virtualization, hypervisor (Qemu/KVM/VirtualBox/Xen) and parallel rendering experience is an asset.
5. Experience of shader language, Vulkan GPU memory management; JIT, LLVM compiler, assembly language knowledge is an asset.
6. Knowledge of ARM and x86 CPU architecture.
7. Linux X window capture and video encoding/streaming experience is an asset.
8. Excellent communication skills and self-motivated with strong commitment to project timeline.