Founding 3D Rendering Engineer for Photoreal AI Video

Mirage; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Mirage is seeking a founding engineer for photoreal 3D in Tesseract, our Rust-based rendering engine. You will shape core architecture for ray tracing, rasterization, and denoising, delivering fast previews and film-quality final renders from scenes authored by humans and AI agents.

You will own light transport, materials, cameras, and image quality, while collaborating with engine, product, and AI teams to hire and grow the 3D rendering group, in NYC HQ where in-person work is expected.

Qualifications

• Deep experience building physically based renderers in production.
• Strong command of light transport and Monte Carlo methods.
• Hands-on GPU ray tracing and acceleration structures (BVHs).
• Knowledge of modern rasterization and hybrid renderers.
• Proficiency in Rust or C++, with memory and performance discipline.

Responsibilities

• Define architecture for photoreal 3D rendering across ray tracing, rasterization, and denoising.
• Build light transport and physically based material models.
• Own image quality: sampling, antialiasing, denoising, and stable frames for video export.
• Scale scenes with acceleration structures for high complexity.
• Integrate 3D into Tesseract's video and compositing pipeline; manage color workflows.

Skills

Physically based rendering

GPU ray tracing

Rust or C++

Ray tracing theory

3D graphics math

Tools

Metal

Vulkan

Direct3D

WebGPU

Job description

Mirage is seeking a founding engineer for photoreal 3D in Tesseract, our Rust-based rendering engine. You will shape core architecture for ray tracing, rasterization, and denoising, delivering fast previews and film-quality final renders from scenes authored by humans and AI agents.

You will own light transport, materials, cameras, and image quality, while collaborating with engine, product, and AI teams to hire and grow the 3D rendering group, in NYC HQ where in-person work is expected.