Graphics Developer Tools Engineer - Cork, Ireland

Qualcomm; Cork; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & bonuses

Stock purchase scheme

Relocation assistance

Pension matching

Education support

Medical & life insurance

Wellness programs

Employee clubs

Job summary

QT Technologies Ireland Limited is recruiting engineers for the Qualcomm Adreno GPU Software team to develop profiling, performance analysis, and debugging tools. You will collaborate across GPU hardware and software groups and contribute to ensuring excellent user experience in next-generation GPU tooling.

The role emphasises real-time graphics, GPGPU work, and full-stack development from UI to driver instrumentation, with opportunities to work with OEMs, developers, and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
• Two or more of the listed qualifications are required.
• Experience with graphics APIs and GPUs is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop profiling, performance analysis, and debugging tools features.
• Collaborate with GPU hardware and software teams on performance validation and analysis.
• Debug issues, optimize for the user experience, and engage with the developer ecosystem, partners, and OEMs.
• Shape how developers optimize for the Snapdragon Adreno GPU and gain insight into next generation GPU hardware design.

Skills

2+ years experience

C/C++ programming

C#/Rust/Go proficiency

GPU hardware knowledge

Graphics concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / CS / Information Systems

Tools

Nsight

PIX

RenderDoc

Unity

Unreal Engine

Job description

QT Technologies Ireland Limited

Job Area

Engineering Group, Engineering Group & Software Engineering

General Summary

About The Role

Interested in enabling next generation graphics, games, ray tracing, machine learning, image and video processing, even Mars drones?

The Qualcomm Adreno GPU Software team is looking for talented engineers to work on next generation GPU Developer Tools. Responsibilities include the design and development of profiling and performance analysis tools, GPU debugging tools, collaborating with GPU hardware and software teams on performance validation and analysis, new feature development, debugging issues, optimizing for the user experience, and working with the developer ecosystem, our partners, and OEMs. This role is an opportunity to shape how developers optimize for the Snapdragon Adreno GPU and have insight into next generation GPU hardware design.

Our efforts in GPU Developer Tools create opportunities for our team members to learn new technologies and engage in full stack development ranging from user interfaces to graphics driver instrumentation. Experience in developing real-time software applications, graphics and/or GPGPU applications, games, middleware, drivers, or developer tools is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop profiling, performance analysis, and debugging tools features.
• Collaborate with GPU hardware and software teams on performance validation and analysis.
• Debug issues, optimize for the user experience, and work with the developer ecosystem, partners, and OEMs.
• Shape how developers optimize for the Snapdragon Adreno GPU and gain insight into next generation GPU hardware design.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will meet two or more of the following qualifications:

• 2+ years of professional experience
• Programming knowledge in C/C++, or demonstrated proficiency in tools and/or application development with C#, Rust, Go
• Knowledge of GPU hardware and graphics concepts

Any of the following qualifications are a plus:

• Demonstrated programming knowledge in C/C++, or demonstrated proficiency in tools and/or application development with C#, Rust, or Go
• Experience developing graphics applications with Vulkan, DirectX, Metal, OpenGL, WebGL or graphics development through Unity, Unreal Engine, or a comparable graphics or game engine
• Experience developing GPU computing applications with OpenCL, CUDA, SYCL etc.
• Experience debugging, optimizing, profiling, and tuning real-time graphics and/or compute applications
• Experience with game engines, graphics frameworks, or general computing frameworks leveraging the GPU a plus
• Knowledge of recent graphics trends a plus, i.e. ray tracing, mesh shading, work graphs
• Knowledge of Image and video processing, data parallelism, and machine learning algorithms
• Familiarity with Graphics Profilers and Debuggers such as Nsight, PIX, GPA, RenderDoc

Location

Cork has a proud reputation as Ireland’s second largest economic engine and is now one of the Top 20 location choices in Europe with 39,000 people being employed by over 170 overseas companies. There's a growing diversity in the region with people from many nationalities relocating to Cork, relishing the opportunity to work and live in a location that offers an excellent quality of life. A gateway to Europe, Cork airport provides access to almost 50 international destinations including transatlantic air routes.

Equal Opportunities

We are an Equal Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any protected classification.

Benefits

• Salary, stock and performance related bonus
• Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Employee stock purchase scheme
• Matching pension scheme
• Education Assistance
• Relocation and immigration support (if needed)
• Life, Medical, Income and Travel Insurance
• Subsidised memberships for physical and mental well-being
• Bicycle purchase scheme
• Employee run clubs, including, running, football, chess, badminton + many more

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

References to a particular number of years experience are for indicative purposes only. Applications from candidates with equivalent experience will be considered, provided that the candidate can demonstrate an ability to fulfill the principal duties of the role and possesses the required competencies.

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